The Forever is Tomorrow Foundation is setting out to raise awareness for kidney disease, while educating the public and giving patients a place for inspiration and hope in their fight with kidney disease.
Kidney Disease Statistics:
Kidney disease is the 9th leading cause of death in the United States.
1 in 3 American adults is currently at risk for developing kidney disease.
26 million American adults have kidney disease -- and most don't know it.
High blood pressure and diabetes are the two leading causes of kidney disease.
Major risk factors for kidney disease include diabetes, high blood pressure, family history of kidney failure and being age 60 or older. Additional risk factors include kidney stones, smoking, obesity and cardiovascular disease.
Every year, kidney disease kills more people than breast or prostate cancer.
In 2013, more than 47,000 Americans died from kidney disease.
More than 661,000 Americans have kidney failure. Of these, 468,000 individuals are on dialysis and approximately 193,000 live with a functioning kidney transplant.
Of more than 121,000 people waiting for lifesaving organ transplants in the U.S., 100,791 await kidney transplants (as of 1/11/16). Fewer than 17,000 people receive one each year.
Every day, 13 people die waiting for a kidney.
Over 29 million American adults have diabetes, of these, nearly 8.1 million are undiagnosed.
More than 35% of all people age 20 or older with diabetes have kidney disease.
Patients suffering from renal failure are prescribed dialysis when a kidney is working at 10 to 15 percent or less of its capacity.
About 398,000 Americans with ESRD rely on some form of dialysis to keep them alive.
Over 3,000 new patients are added to the kidney waiting list each month.
Every 14 minutes someone is added to the kidney transplant list.
1 In 2014, 4,761 patients died while waiting for a kidney transplant, another, 3,668 people became too sick to receive a kidney transplant.
In 2014, 17,107 kidney transplants took place in the US. Of these, 11,570 came from deceased donors and 5,537 came from living donors.
