Outlook

There is no cure for chronic kidney disease. The natural course of the disease is to progress until dialysis or transplant is required.

• Patients with chronic kidney disease are at a much higher risk than the general population to develop strokes and heart attacks.
  
  
• People undergoing dialysis have an overall five year survival rate of 32%. The elderly and those with diabetes have worse outcomes.
  
  
• Recipients of a kidney transplant from a living related donor have a two year survival rate greater than 90%.
  
  
• Recipients of a kidney from a donor who has died have a two year survival rate of 88%.