Tag: Hypertensive Nephropathy

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Blood pressure can also determine the quality of the kidney.

Kidney is a clean blood in the human body [sewage factory]. The reason why kidney has sewage function, All by the diligent [workers] in the [factory]-nephron. Nephron consists of renal corpuscles and renal tubules. There are more than a million such workers in each kidney [factory]. The renal corpuscles can be further anatomically divided into glomeruli and renal capsules. Glomeruli are actually spherical tissues composed of many capillaries. In the process of blood filtration, it acts as a [sieve]. The renal capsules and tubules are the parts where urine is formed, concentrated and collected. It can be said that the kidney is our blood purification machine, but do you know, whether the kidney is good or not, blood pressure can Read More …

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How to Protect Kidney for Hypertensive Patients?

Hypertension is currently one of the most common chronic diseases with the highest incidence rate in the world. It is estimated that 1 billion people in the world suffer from hypertension. Data from the National Health and Nutrition Survey (NHANES) in the United States show that the prevalence rate of hypertension is on the rise year by year. However, the degree of hypertension control in our country is not optimistic. Many friends are worried about the impact of antihypertensive drugs on the kidney. Some even dare not take antihypertensive drugs for fear of hurting the kidney. Let’s introduce the harm of hypertension to the kidney and the effect of antihypertensive drugs on the kidney. Friends who do not have the Read More …

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Afraid of side effects, I dare not take medicine: I can’t pick up sesame even if I lose watermelon.

Recently, a middle-aged male dialysis patient of about 50 years old, Lao Zhang, was admitted to our dialysis room. He has long-term uncontrolled hypertension and renal failure. Lao Zhang found hypertension when he was in his 30s. He took the medicine for a month and stopped taking it afterwards. First, he felt that his hypertension was not uncomfortable, plus there were so many side effects written on the drug instructions, thinking that the drug was three points poisonous. Second, I am only in my 30s, so I can’t stand taking medicine for most of my life, so I stopped taking medicine. In the long run, hypertension and nephropathy finally occurred. However, Lao Zhang still did not control his blood pressure Read More …

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Hypertension, a disease once despised,

Throughout the history of medical development, medical [common sense], which seems to be taken for granted, has often gone through tortuous and long exploration and research. There are many similar examples, such as today’s theme: [Hypertensive Patients Need Hypotension]. It is also common sense today that hypertension should be lowered. However, in the middle of the last century, the common view of people (including the medical profession) was still: [After arteriosclerosis, higher blood pressure is needed to allow blood to pass through narrow blood vessels, so hypertension is an important compensation for people and should not be intervened.] Due to such misconception, the vast number of hypertension patients failed to receive necessary antihypertensive treatment and eventually became victims of hypertension Read More …

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Hypertension, a disease once despised,

Throughout the history of medical development, medical [common sense], which seems to be taken for granted, has often gone through tortuous and long exploration and research. There are many similar examples, such as today’s theme: [Hypertensive Patients Need Hypotension]. It is also common sense today that hypertension should be lowered. However, in the middle of the last century, the common view of people (including the medical profession) was still: [After arteriosclerosis, higher blood pressure is needed to allow blood to pass through narrow blood vessels, so hypertension is an important compensation for people and should not be intervened.] Due to such misconception, the vast number of hypertension patients failed to receive necessary antihypertensive treatment and eventually became victims of hypertension Read More …