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We have on average one million nephrons and they’re fully formed before we’re born. Premature birth and low birth weight coincides with fewer nephrons. No new nephrons are formed after birth and we lose up to 6,000 of them each year, making old age and low birth weight a risk factor for kidney disease.
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Pandey, R. (2016). Development of Renal Tissues in First Twenty Weeks. In: Bhattacharya, N., Stubblefield, P. (eds) Human Fetal Growth and Development. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14874-8_31
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