... , Friedman, Delano, McFarlane, & Salifu, 2014). In the first stage, the patient has kidney damage but maintains normal kidney function (Mallappalil et al., 2014). In the second stage, the patient has kidney damage with a mild loss of kidney function. In stage 3a, the patient has mild to moderate loss of kidney function while in stage 3b, there is moderate to severe loss of kidney function (Mallappalil et al., 2014). In the fourth stage, kidney function is severely disabled (Mallappalil et ... of sodium in the body (O'Toole, & Sedor, 2014). With the transplantation of a kidney, the risk o...

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