Keep Your Kidneys Healthy!
How many glasses of water should you drink per day?
8
When is the next KDSAP screening?
10/4/2025.
What is the medical specialty focused on kidney care?
Nephrology.
Name all the committees of Penn KDSAP.
Clinical Operations, Health Education, Programming & Physician Relations, Community Outreach, Marketing & Public Relations.
This board member can play the harmonica.
Isha.
Name one of the two leading causes of chronic kidney disease.
Diabetes OR high blood pressure.
Name all the stations at a KDSAP screening.
Questionnaire, registration, blood pressure, blood glucose, waist-hip ratio + height, urinalysis.
Tiny filtering units inside the kidneys remove waste and excess fluid from the blood. Each kidney has about one million of them.
Nephrons.
Which school started the very first KDSAP chapter?
Harvard.
This board member plays the tabla.
Vyas.
Name one mineral that people with kidney disease limit in their diet?
Na, K, or P.
Name all five screening sites KDSAP has been to last semester.
Free Church of St. John, CGC, Mount Zion Baptist Church, Christ and St. Ambrose, Opportunities Towers.
What artery supplies the kidney?
Renal artery.
Who founded KDSAP and in what year?
Li-Li Hsiao; 2008.
This board member had a pet pufferfish.
Michael.
Chronic kidney disease affects how many people in the USA? Within 5M.
35.5M Americans.
How many people were at the largest KDSAP screening last semester? Within 5.
69
How many liters of blood do your kidneys filter each day?
150-200L.
How many KDSAP chapters are there? Within 5.
24
This board member is a 3rd degree black belt in taekwondo.
Jenny.
People with advanced kidney disease often develop anemia because the kidneys stop producing this hormone that stimulates red blood cell production.
Erythropoietin.
How many people did KDSAP screen last semester? Within 10.
145
This genetic disorder causes numerous fluid-filled cysts to form in the kidneys, often leading to kidney failure.
Polycystic Kidney Disease.
Name one person on the Governing Board for National KDSAP.
Andrew Rosenblatt, Jeremy Policht, or Jane Kuo.
This board member can drive a stick shift.
Sneha.