Help high-risk patients save their kidneys! You can make the difference.

Help your patients make the connection between diabetes, high blood pressure or family history of kidney problems and the risk of chronic kidney disease (CKD). Prevention is possible, and early detection and management can delay the disease’s progression. Help enhance your patients’ length and quality of life. Teach them and test them to help keep their kidneys safe.

Campaign Overview

The Texas Department of State Health Services, in collaboration with the Texas Renal Coalition and the Chronic Kidney Disease Task Force, launched a public awareness campaign targeting patients with CKD risk factors in 2008. Television spots, radio PSAs, messages at local pharmacies and newspaper print ads are just some of the ways the “Love your Kidneys” campaign urges those at risk to get tested for kidney disease.

We are inviting you, as a Texas health care provider, to join in this effort and help us save your patients’ kidneys. This web site is part of that effort. It contains important information for health care providers about the detection, treatment and management of CKD.

See the “Love your Kidneys” TV Spot!

English Version (1.08mb) [Open Caption Version]

Spanish Version (1.12mb)[Open Caption Version]

Campaign Evaluation

Download the report. (989KB PDF)

Texas CKD Task Force Issues First Report

The Chronic Kidney Disease Task Force, a team of experts in the fields of nephrology, family practice medicine, pediatrics, dietetics, transplantation, education and state government reports its findings and recommendations in “Addressing Chronic Kidney Disease in Texas.” (1.2MB PDF)