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    Devraj R , et al.. Relationship between health literacy and kidney function. Nephrology 2015; 20:360–367.

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    Ricardo AC , et al.. Limited health literacy is associated with low glomerular filtration in the Chronic Renal Insufficiency Cohort (CRIC) study. Clin Nephrol 2014; 81:30–37.

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    Grubbs V , Gregorich S , Perez-Stable EJ , Hsu C . Health literacy and access to kidney transplantation. Clin J Am Soc Nephrol 2009; 4:195–200.

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    Morony S , Flynn M , McCaffery KJ , Jansen J , Webster AC . Readability of written materials for CKD patients: a systematic review. Am J Kidney Dis 2015; 65:842.

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    Jain D , Green JA . Health literacy in kidney disease: Review of the literature and implications for clinical practice. World J Nephrol 2016; 5:147–151.

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    Dageforde LA , Cavanaugh KL . Health literacy: Emerging evidence and applications in kidney disease care. Adv Chronic Kidney Dis 2013; 20:311–319.

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Health Literacy in CKD: A Fellow’s Perspective

Devika Nair Devika Nair, MD, is currently a first-year nephrology fellow at Vanderbilt University. She completed her medical training and chief residency in Internal Medicine at Tulane University and her undergraduate studies at the University of California, Berkeley.

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