Archive for June 4th, 2010
Diabetes and Nephropathy
June 4th, 2010 | 
Author: Nephropathy is the medical term for kidney disease. Kidney disease is one of the possible long term consequences of diabetes.
Approximately 30% of people with type 2 diabetes develop some degree of kidney disease, and the same figure applies to patients receiving dialysis treatment.
It used to be thought that people with type 1 diabetes were the group most at risk, but over the years research has found that the chances of developing kidney disease are the same for both type 1 and type 2.
The job of the kidneys is to filter the blood, removing unwanted matter and passing it out of the body in urine. One of the symptoms of diabetes is the need to urinate frequently. This is because the kidneys are filtering out the excess blood glucose that is not being absorbed due to a lack of insulin or insulin resistance.
If you have high blood pressure as well as diabetes, this increases your risk of kidney disease significantly.