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 Overview of CKD: Impact of Anemia in CKD

So what you are doing for metabolic syndrome, the weight loss, increased exercise, are probably going to be beneficial at decreasing this growing rate of CKD in the country. I think we helped that. Just to mention about anemia is one last thing. We are now using 10-12 as our range for hemoglobin for erythropoietin. You have to be below ten to get started with erythropoietin. And we are trying to avoid patients going over 12 because there is data of bad outcomes in those patients.