{"id":6457,"date":"2023-03-28T08:03:06","date_gmt":"2023-03-28T15:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allocare.caredx.com\/?p=6457"},"modified":"2023-03-28T08:03:13","modified_gmt":"2023-03-28T15:03:13","slug":"how-to-use-social-media-to-find-a-living-donor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/indexphp\/post\/2023\/03\/28\/how-to-use-social-media-to-find-a-living-donor\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Use Social Media to Find a Living Donor"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"simplefavorite-button has-count loading\" data-postid=\"6457\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"0\" style=\"\">Loading<span class=\"sf-icon-spinner-wrapper\"><i class=\"sf-icon-spinner\"><\/i><\/span><\/span>\n<p>By Dr. Beje Thomas<br><br>Finding a living donor can shorten your wait.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over 30 million people in the US are estimated to have Chronic Kidney Disease and almost 50% of patients with severely reduced kidney function are unaware of it. Options for patients with kidney function less than 20% are either kidney transplantation or dialysis. However, the wait can be several years for a deceased donor kidney transplant with about 100,000 people on the wait list. Many patients do not live long enough to receive a transplant with 13 people on the wait list dying every day. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medstarhealth.org\/blog\/how-to-use-social-media-to-find-a-living-donor\">Read the full article <\/a>from MedStar Health.<\/p>\n<span class=\"simplefavorite-button has-count loading\" data-postid=\"6457\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"0\" style=\"\">Loading<span class=\"sf-icon-spinner-wrapper\"><i class=\"sf-icon-spinner\"><\/i><\/span><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Loading By Dr. Beje Thomas Finding a living donor can shorten your wait. 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