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‘Protect kidney in 3 stages’

TIRUPATI: M. Jaya Kumar, a professor and head of Nephrology at Madras Medical College, has appealed to the diabetics to protect their kidneys in three stages, as it is the part that is more prone to attack in them.

Delivering the third annual ‘Dr. Nalagatla Balakrishna Reddy memorial endowment lecture’ here on Saturday, Dr. Kumar said that detection in the early stage and controlling kidney failure by containing blood pressure etc. formed the primary and secondary levels respectively. The third and crucial step at the tertiary level involved the curative step like dialysis.

“As India is already considered the diabetes capital of the world, enough care should be taken to keep the disease at bay well before development of nephropathy,” he observed.

The endowment lecture was instituted by gynaecologist N.Sukavani Reddy in memory of her husband N.Balakrishna Reddy, a retired professor of Geography at SVU, who died while undergoing treatment at SVIMS nephrology wing.

SVIMS Nephrology head V.Sivakumar spoke on the developments in the department. Dr.Jaya Kumar was later felicitated by the Director in-charge M.Kumaraswamy Reddy and Dean B.Vengamma.

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