Chronic Kidney Failure

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Kidneys are essential body organs that facilitate the formation of the blood in the body through the synthesis of erythropoietin (EPO) hormone that is then produced and distributed to the bone marrow and stimulate the formation of red blood cells. These cells contain hemoglobin that is responsible for transporting oxygen to the body tissues. Since anemia is caused by lack of enough hemoglobin in the body. Failure of the kidneys render them incapable of manufacturing producing this hormone, and therefore the patient with renal failure ends up developing anemia as a result of the production of little red blood cells from the bone (Charpentier et al., 2011). Therefore, as the chronic kidney failure progresses, the case of anemia continues to worsen

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