Health Education in Schools as a Perpetual Priority to Prevent Kidney Disease

Osama El Shamy¹, Kerri L Cavanaugh^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
² Vanderbilt Center for Effective Health Communication, Vanderbilt University, University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.

Editorial

Osama El Shamy et al. Kidney Int Rep. 2020.

. 2020 Nov 1;5(12):2130-2132.

doi: 10.1016/j.ekir.2020.10.024. eCollection 2020 Dec.

Osama El Shamy¹, Kerri L Cavanaugh^{1

2}

¹ Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
² Vanderbilt Center for Effective Health Communication, Vanderbilt University, University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.

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Figures

Association of Educational Attainment With Incidence of CKD in Young Adults.
Tripathy S, Cai X, Adhikari A, Kershaw K, Peralta CA, Kramer H, Jacobs DR Jr, Gutierrez OM, Carnethon MR, Isakova T. Tripathy S, et al. Kidney Int Rep. 2020 Sep 19;5(12):2256-2263. doi: 10.1016/j.ekir.2020.09.015. eCollection 2020 Dec. Kidney Int Rep. 2020. PMID: 33305119 Free PMC article.

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