Chronic Kidney Disease Facts

2015-10-07 06:14

Chronic kidney disease means that kidney gets impaired, and kidney function can decline gradually with the time. In this way, other system and parts of body can also be affected, causing some symptoms or complications. Kidney failure is always resulted in finally.

At early stage of CKD, there are almost no symptoms occurring on patients. In this situation, GFR and urine tests are the best way to know if CKD appears. It is important to slow down progression of CKD to prevent kidney failure, thus getting timely and proper treatment is very necessary. At end stage of CKD, dialysis or kidney transplant is always recommended for patients to replace the original kidney to work.

According to research and statistics, the older people are, the higher risk they are at of developing CKD, over 50 years old in general, and very popular in people who are over 70 years old. Patients with high blood pressure or diabetes are very likely to have CKD. One in three people with diabetes can get CKD finally, and one in five high blood pressure patients can have CKD. Besides, males with CKD have more than 50% possibility to get kidney failure than females.

Hence, people with diabetes or high blood pressure should control blood sugar and blood pressure well in daily life to prevent kidney failure occurring.

What is worse, other serious diseases can be caused by kidney disease. Heart disease, stroke, cardiovascular problems may be resulted in for patients with CKD, which are very life-threatening.

People with CKD should have a good planned diet and proper treatment to control disease condition well, otherwise kidney failure will come in succession. Paying attention to taking care of kidney is very important for us to prevent CKD in life. Our hospital is professionally engaged in treating CKD for over 30 years, and get good reputation in the world. Welcome to leave a message or contact our online doctors anytime if you have any question or need more information about kidney disease.

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