A kidney specialist has revealed that children as young as eight are suffering from genetic kidney disease while adults in the 20-30 age group are suffering from kidney failure owing to lifestyle diseases.
Consultant nephrologist Dr Nerissa Jurawan said: “In the children, it is usually a genetic disease, which means that it is something that you are born with. But what we are actually seeing now in the age group between 20 and 30 years old, it is not genetic causes; it is… diabetes, hypertension – these chronic diseases are actually presenting an early stage of this disease.”
