Pikes Peak Nephrology Associates, PC and the National Kidney Foundation of Colorado, Montana, and Wyoming hold first Kidney Health Risk Assessment in Colorado Springs on March 14, 2009.
Learn more about Dialysis at Altitude in this KOAA Channel 5/30 video broadcast on February 4, 2009 featuring nephrologist Jesse A. Flaxenburg, MD, Pikes Peak Nephrology Associates, PC and patient, Linda Carnell.
A new study published February 3, 2009 by the Journal of the American Medical Association finds that people on dialysis have a lower death rate the higher in elevation they live. At just over 6000 feet in elevation, Pikes Peak Nephrology Associates, PC serves one of the largest populations of people on dialysis in the country.