When do we give statins in a patient with CKD?
Dr. Sanjay Kumar Agarwal, Professor and Head of Nephrology, AIIMS, will talk about initiating statins in a patient with CKD in this video. He says that if the CKD patients has high cholesterol levels then statins are introduced. If the cholesterol levels are normal then no need of initiating statins.
Dr. Sanjay Kumar Agarwal
Dr Sanjay Kumar Agarwal, graduate and post graduate from King George Medical College, Lucknow did his nephrology specialization from All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi in 1987. Since then he is working in the same department. Kidney diseases, particularly acute kidney injury (AKI) and chronic kidney disease (CKD) contribute to more than 10,000 patients per million populations in India. These are not only serious diseases but also involves significant finances of the patient and family. While working at AIIMS in last 30 years, during various media briefing, radio talks and non-nephrology meetings, significant lacunae in general knowledge about kidney disease in general public became obvious.
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