AFRICAN AMERICANS AND KIDNEY DISEASE

2015-09-07 03:19

Black people, also including African Americans are more risky to develop kidney failure. This is because they have the more possibilities of diabetes, high blood pressure or heart disease. As is known to all, diabetes and high blood pressure are two most leading causes of kidney disease. In addition, kidney disease has relations with heart disease, and heart disease can also lead to kidney disease. You can click the below title to see more, Why Do Patients with Heart Disease Mostly Develop A Kidney Disease.

These three diseases can make kidney get impaired, leading to decline of kidney function in the end. In this way, kidney failure are resulted in. kidney failure are divided into five stages, and it is important to control the progression to prevent stage 4 or stage 5 kidney failure at which dialysis or kidney transplant is always recommended for patients. And what is worse, in early stage like stage 1 and 2, there are no obvious symptoms of kidney failure occurring at all. When symptoms appear, kidney disease has developed into stage 3.

Hence, it is necessary and important for African Americans with diabetes, hypertension or heart disease to do regular examination in hospital to find if kidney function works well. Blood sugar, creatinine, blood pressure, urine change, like blood in urine or proteinuria, potassium level in blood, BUN(blood urea nitrogen), these are mainly indicators to judge your kidney function.

The research and statistics show that black people who get kidney failure are extremely more than Caucasians, and the ratio is over 3:1.

The number of African Americans occupies 32% in patients on dialysis in America. However, this number is 13% of American population in total. In addition, it shows that African Americans are more possible to have diabetes than Caucasians, it is as twice as much. Type 2 diabetes is the most common for them. Family history, impaired glucose tolerance, diabetes in pregnancy are leading factors to type 2 diabetes.

Heart disease and stoke which are very life threatening may be resulted in with kidney disease or diabetes, high blood pressure. Thus, it is very important to get proper treatment to slow down conditions. It is worth trying our treatment with planned healthy diet in daily life, the best effects and results are achieved by the time. Any doubt or question, Leave a message or contact online doctor anytime, we will reply you as fast as possible in detail.

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