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Each person is born with two kidneys. Your kidneys are located in your back just above your bottom ribs. The kidneys act as a filter for the body with blood entering and leaving through veins and arteries. The kidneys filter out waste from your bloodstream and the waste becomes urine.
General Kidney Information and Health
National Kidney Foundation
National Kidney Foundation of Illinois
American Association of Kidney Patients
The Nephron Information Center
Keeping Kidney Patients Safe
African American Health
Black Health Care Coalition
African American Community Health Advisory Committee
Hispanic Health
Diabetes
American Diabetes Association
Learning About Diabetes
Dialysis
Chronic Kidney Disease
Financial Assistance
American Kidney Fund
Minority Organ Tissue Transplant
Nutrition and Travel
Additional Resources
American Association of Kidney Patients
Medicare
American Diabetes Association
National Institutes of Health
Association of Organ Procurement Organizations
National Kidney Foundation
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
National Kidney Foundation of Illinois
End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) Networks
Polycystic Kidney Research Foundation
International Society of Nephrology
United Network for Organ Sharing
International Society of Peritoneal Dialysis
US Renal Data System
Kidney School
Hemodialysis Kinetics 101
Renal Fellow Network
Renal WEB Meetings
Home Dialysis Central