Download or read book The Aging Kidney in Health and Disease written by Juan F. Macías-Núñez and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-11-24 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume will be a reliable source on the management of the elderly with renal disease. There is an ever-increasing proportion of the aging population affected by renal disease and hypertension, and physicians are faced with atypical clinical presentations of renal disease in the aged as compared to younger people. This volume combines the fields of nephrology and geriatrics and presents a multidisciplinary approach to the topic.