New Delhi, Sept. 26 -- Your kidneys work quietly filtering nearly 200 litres of blood every single day, balancing minerals, regulating blood pressure, and flushing out waste you never think about. And that silence, unfortunately, is also their biggest danger.

A landmark study published in the peer-reviewed health journal The Lancet has sounded a serious alarm. Researchers project chronic kidney disease (CKD) will become the fifth leading cause of death globally by 2040. For India, the numbers are even grimmer. India reported the second-highest number of CKD cases globally in 2023, affecting an estimated 138 million people. And if current trends continue, annual deaths from CKD in India could touch 5,56,000 by 2040 nearly doubling the 202...