Stage 1 Kidney Disease Life Expectancy. Chronic kidney disease ckd refers to all five stages of kidney damage from very mild damage in stage 1 to complete kidney failure in stage 5. In the early stages of kidney disease your kidneys are still able to filter out waste from your blood.
As much as anything else life expectancy for kidney disease depends on a person s age and sex. The stages of kidney disease are based on how well the kidneys can filter waste and extra fluid out of the blood. Because kidneys do a good job even when they re not functioning at 100 percent most people will not know they have stage 1 ckd.
The kidneys are significantly damaged.
That figure falls to 13 years 8 years and 6 years in the second third and fourth stages of kidney disease respectively. Chronic kidney disease ckd is recognized as a major public health problem affecting 13 16 of the adult population 1 2 and is associated with increased risk of all cause mortality 3 4 life expectancy at different ages is a measure commonly used to estimate health status and impact of disease burden at a population level. That is you can prevent further damage to your kidney and with simple dietary habits you can prolong your kidney life. There are 5 stages of chronic kidney disease.