{"id":225207,"date":"2026-05-12T04:54:35","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T04:54:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=225207"},"modified":"2026-05-12T04:54:35","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T04:54:35","slug":"understanding-kidney-health-what-south-africans-need-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=225207","title":{"rendered":"Understanding kidney health: What South Africans need to know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JOHANNESBURG &#8211; Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a growing global health concern, yet it often goes unnoticed until advanced stages, limiting opportunities for early intervention. Dr Chevon Clark, Chief Executive Officer of National Renal Care (NRC), said that in South Africa, the most prevalent kidney-related conditions include CKD, hypertension-related kidney damage, diabetic nephropathy, and glomerular<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.enca.com\/lifestyle\/understanding-kidney-health-what-south-africans-need-know\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JOHANNESBURG &#8211; Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a growing global health concern, yet it often<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":225208,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/225207-understanding-kidney-health-what-south-africans-need-to-know.webp",480,364,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/225207-understanding-kidney-health-what-south-africans-need-to-know-150x150.webp",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/225207-understanding-kidney-health-what-south-africans-need-to-know-300x228.webp",300,228,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/225207-understanding-kidney-health-what-south-africans-need-to-know.webp",480,364,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/225207-understanding-kidney-health-what-south-africans-need-to-know.webp",480,364,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/225207-understanding-kidney-health-what-south-africans-need-to-know.webp",480,364,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/225207-understanding-kidney-health-what-south-africans-need-to-know.webp",480,364,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/225207-understanding-kidney-health-what-south-africans-need-to-know.webp",480,364,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/225207-understanding-kidney-health-what-south-africans-need-to-know.webp",480,364,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/225207-understanding-kidney-health-what-south-africans-need-to-know.webp",480,364,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=40\" rel=\"category\">Africa<\/a>","tag_info":"Africa","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=225207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/225208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=225207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=225207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=225207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}