How Does CKD and High Blood Pressure Interact with Each Other

It is common to hear CKD (Chronic Kidney Disease) patients to complain high blood pressure which is said to play a role in aggravating illness progression. High blood pressure refers to the heavy force of blood against the wall of blood vessels and may occur as a symptom or cause of CKD. Now, let’s learn how CKD and high blood pressure interact with each other.

High blood pressure can be a spell of CKD

In cases of CKD, sudden increase of blood pressure may occur as the first symptom of kidney damages. Kidneys are responsible for adjusting blood pressure and when kidney function is affected, fluctuation of blood pressure will occur. In clinic, almost all the CKD patients experience high blood pressure.

Although treating CKD is the root solution for elevated blood pressure caused by CKD, bring blood pressure under control is an essential part in treating kidney disease. Clinical experiments show tight control of high blood pressure will help CKD patients to slow down illness progression. In this light, it is of great clinical significant for CKD patients to control blood pressure into normal range actively.

Persistent high blood pressure will cause Hypertensive Nephropathy

Long-term heavy impact on the vascular wall will damage blood vessels through which blood can be transported to different part of our body. Kidney is the filtration organ of our body and plays the role of filtering blood, so there are lots of blood vessels in kidney. For people with high blood pressure, when kidney blood vessels are damaged, protein leak out and Hypertensive Nephropathy is caused. Hypertensive Nephropathy is one of the common types of CKD.

Hypertensive Nephropathy occurs easily after the diagnosis of high blood pressure for more than 10 years. Therefore, it is of great importance for Hypertension patients to prevent kidney problem.

Besides, for people with hypertension and kidney disease, it is important to found out it is CKD elevates blood pressure or high blood pressure causes kidney damages, as in different cases, the disease will be treated differently.