Wellness Wednesday: Fabry Disease and CKD

March 18, 2020.Reading time 2 minutes.

If you follow this blog then you know I have CKD, and you also know that there is no apparent cause for my CKD. I do not have Hypertension, Diabetes or any of the other major risk factors. I had signed up for an AAKP seminar, today, on CKD and Covid19. Unfortunately, the webinar was […]

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