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Awareness of CKD (percentage of true positive responses) differs by how patients are asked. Percentage of true-positive (sensitivity) and false-positive (1-specificity) responses by patients with and without kidney disease answering: “Have you even been told by a doctor or health care provider that you have kidney disease,” using different descriptions of kidney disease. Dz, ”Kidney Disease“; KP, ”Kidney Problem“; NHANES, National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey; Prot, “Protein in the Urine”.

Percentage of true-positive (sensitivity) responses among patients with chronic health conditions answering whether a provider had ever told them that they had kidney disease, high cholesterol, high BP, or diabetes. The first five bars represent different questions used to ask about kidney disease (see text or for phrasing). Dz, ”Kidney Disease“; KP, ”Kidney Problem“ NHANES, National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey; Prot, ”Protein in the Urine“.