Life Expectancy for Patients with Stage 3 Chronic Kidney Disease

Chronic kidney disease can be divided into 5 stages with stage 3 a crucial and pivotal period because the life expectancy of third stage CKD is still within control because there is still great chance to reverse renal damages and improve kidney functions.

So long as the further renal damages are prevented, patients can stay in stage 3 for years without developing into end stage renal disease. Current medicine can ensure that patients do not die of renal failure. However many other symptoms and complications pose great threaten to the patients and it is not rare that many CKD patients die of complications in other systems and organs. Therefore, more attention and importance should be attached to these complications especially cerebrovascular complications. Timely and effective prevention measures and treatments can lower mortality and improve life expectancy of the patients

However the life expectancy of stage 3 chronic kidney disease depends on many factors such as what the primary disease of CKD is, what kind of treatments the patient receive, patient’s complicant with the medicines and treatments as well as other general illness conditions and complications such as high blood pressure, diabetes, hyperlipidemia, cerebrovascular complications as well as the patient’ age, gender, age of developing CKD and their life habits.

High blood pressure, high blood sugar and high blood lipid as well as many risk factors such as proteinuria, blood urine, anemia, gout, smoking and alcohol all will speed up CKD progression and affect patients’ life quality and life expectancy, therefore patients should have timely and effective prevention and treatments for these aggravating factors.

The earlier the treatment is received, the better the curative effects are. And what is more important, early treatments can help prevent developing more advanced renal damages and protect kidney functions. CKD patients can live a long life with timely and effective medications and treatments as well as proper diets and nursing cares.