Many people feel as if the world has come to an end once they are diagnosed with chronic kidney disease. The reporter learned from the forum on the prevention and treatment of chronic kidney disease in Chinese and Western medicine that the incidence of chronic kidney disease is high in large cities in China, with one in ten people suffering from this disease. However, there is still a long time for early chronic kidney disease to develop into end-stage renal failure, and patients can delay the deterioration of kidney function if they can undergo standardized treatment in regular hospital nephrology specialists and adjust their lifestyles. One in ten people with chronic kidney disease Professor Wang Tao of Peking University Third Hospital introduced that in recent years, the incidence of chronic kidney disease in Beijing, Guangzhou and other major cities is about 10%, and the incidence rises with age, with the prevalence rate of men aged 60-70 years as high as 23.8% and 27% for women. Studies have shown that the elderly, hypertension, diabetes, obesity, repeated use of various drugs, and a family history of chronic kidney disease are among those with a high incidence of chronic kidney disease. Most chronic kidney disease can have no symptoms in the early stage, and even if there are symptoms, they are not typical and are often ignored, which makes the time for treatment late. It can be said that chronic kidney disease is a “silent killer” that is easy to be ignored. Many people feel as if the world has come to an end once they are diagnosed with chronic kidney disease. In fact, studies have shown that if effective intervention and treatment are carried out early to control risk factors, it is possible to slow down the progression of chronic kidney disease and even reduce the incidence of kidney failure. If you know or suspect that you are a patient with chronic kidney disease, it is best to visit a regular nephrology specialist for screening of the cause and establishment of a treatment plan. Chronic kidney disease is a collective term for chronic kidney damage (generally defined as more than three months) and is composed of many diseases, the treatment and prognosis of which are not exactly the same for different diseases. Patients with chronic kidney disease will enter a long treatment period after diagnosis, and it is best to be referred to a chronic disease management clinic if one is available at your local hospital. Chronic kidney disease is different from traditional acute diseases in that the goal of treatment is not to cure, but to return the patient to a normal life. Medication is not the core, but the key to the prevention and treatment of chronic kidney disease is the adjustment of the patient’s lifestyle. Doctors in the chronic disease management clinic will set up health records for patients, regularly guide patients to follow up and review, systematically grasp the changes in patients’ conditions, and even assign “homework” for patients, extending the outpatient clinic to the family. In this treatment model, the patient is the main character and the doctor is the coach. Although there are many drugs to treat chronic kidney disease, research shows that chronic kidney disease is a lifestyle disease. On the one hand, factors closely related to lifestyle play an increasingly important role in diseases causing chronic kidney disease, among which kidney damage caused by diabetes and kidney damage caused by hypertension are the main causes of the occurrence of chronic kidney disease. It is well known that the occurrence and development of diabetes mellitus and hypertension are closely related to lifestyle. On the other hand, lifestyle factors are an important cause of the progression of kidney disease. Practice shows that lifestyle changes such as controlling salt intake, increasing exercise and quitting smoking in patients with chronic kidney disease can effectively lower blood pressure and delay the progression of kidney function damage. Therefore, it is recommended that patients with chronic kidney disease pay attention to their diet and then cooperate with medication to get twice the effect with half the effort.