A free kidney screening will be offered on Sunday at the fourth annual Kidney Awareness Run/Walk series, to be held at Denver’s Stapleton Central Park.
Registration begins at 8:30 a.m. and opening ceremonies are at 10 a.m.
The family-friendly 5K run/walk includes games and entertainment, plus a kidney-health expo.
The event is sponsored by Davita, a kidney-care services provider, which estimates that about 60,000 Denver residents have chronic kidney disease — and 90 percent of them don’t know it.
That’s because symptoms of chronic kidney disease normally don’t show up until the advanced stages.
Six percent of Americans have diabetes, the No. 1 cause of kidney disease.
One in four Americans has high blood pressure, which is the second cause of kidney disease.
For more information, call 866-859-9255 or sign up online at .
