Why do people with advanced kidney disease commonly become anemic?
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Because the kidney is reponsible for producing erythropoetin, a hormone peptide that stimulates the bone marrow to cause blood cell precursors to multiply and differentiate into mature erythrocytes (red blood cells). People with kidney disease have decreased production of eythropoetin and so they tend to be anemic. Injections of synthetic eythropoetin will stimulate their bone marrow to produce more red blood cells and will treat the anemia.
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