What about the Prognosis in Hypertensive Nephropathy

Hypertension is one of health threatening condition affecting a great population in the world. If high blood pressure is poorly controlled, it can damage blood vessels on many organs, one of which is the kidneys. Hypertensive Nephropathy, or hypertensive kidney disease, follows Diabetes as the second leading cause of end-stage kidney disease. The prognosis for Hypertensive Nephropathy is not positive enough, when diagnosed as the disease, people should be aware that the earlier and more carefully the disease is treated, the better their prognosis would be.

Our kidneys are filtering balls surrounded by blood vessels which will filter bloodstream and stop such nutrients as proteins and red blood cells from leaking out. Hypertension can damage the filtering system by increasing filtration pressure. Over time, renal filtering cells can not block leakage of proteins and red blood cells as effectively, thus causing abnormally increased blood and proteins in urine. Hypertension can likely damage renal tubular cells, cells that can concentrate urine, so people often experience increased night urine.

Proteinuria, hematuria and increased night urination are typical warning signs of kidney disease caused by high blood pressure. When any sign occurs or the disease is diagnosed, note that you should control blood pressure strictly, cut off sodium intake and control the symptoms. People even by tight controlling can slow down but not completely block further deterioration of the kidney damage. What’s worse, high blood pressure is the underlying cause of kidney disease, and vice versa, diseased kidneys can raise blood pressure and worsen renal damage. So that’s a vicious cycle. People sometimes need several types of anti-hypertensive medicines to control blood pressure.

Another aspect that affects the prognosis in the patients is combined diseases in other organs. Primary and chronic hypertension may damage brain, heart and the eyes. Among common cardiac complications are hypertensive left ventricular hypertrophy, coronary disease, angina, heart failure, etc. Retinal arterial sclerosis often progresses together with sclerosing damage on the kidneys. People should control high blood pressure which helps to prevent those complications. When people get kidney disease, kidney lesioning can worsen the multiple complications to make the illness condition complicated.

With all the above concerns, people with hypertension should be aware of the signs of kidney diseases and attach importance to early treatment for Hypertensive Nephropathy. Treating hypertensive kidney disease by accelerating blood circulation, increase blood and nutrient supplement and repair injured renal cells by herbal medicines may help to improve kidney condition to the patients, and combing dietary modifications and healthy lifestyle to help improve health state and improve quality of life.