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800,000 in Singapore have undiagnosed chronic diseases. How can they be identified and treated?
Many suffer from diabetes, hypertension and high lipids but don’t know it.
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Screening and detection can help Singaporeans suffering from undaignosed conditions like diabetes to manage them better and avoid complications.
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Chia Kee Seng
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A recent article in The Straits Times on kidney failure vividly captured not only the suffering of patients undergoing dialysis, but also highlighted a sobering fact: that “half the kidney disease cases in Singapore could have been prevented”.
According to the Singapore Renal Registry Annual Report 2023, there are 10,837 Singaporeans living with kidney failure, the final stage of chronic kidney disease (CKD5). The economic burden to the country is estimated to run into hundreds of millions annually.
