Why Diabetes would lead to Renal Failure

Diabetes becomes a worldwide health problem since over 20 million people in the United States are affected with this disease. Whatever type one or type 2 diabetes is a disease in which the body fails to produce sufficient insulin or can’t use the insulin properly. People with diabetes would suffer from high blood sugar and fatigue.

Diabetes can cause problems in many organs of your body, such as heart, liver, kidneys and so on. Among all those problems, Renal Failure is pretty common. But how does the diabetes affect one’s kidneys and finally lead to Renal Failure?

Diabetes mellitus affects small blood vessels in the whole body and then poses damages on them. Due to the impaired blood vessels, the blood flow to kidneys will probably decrease. And then ischemia and oxygen deficit occurs, resulting in the kidneys fail to work properly. The kidney problem causes a series of serious consequences, such as water and salt are retained and can’t be discharged from the blood, swelling appears, protein leaks, and toxins building up in human body.

Another reason for Renal Failure induced by diabetes is that the disease may cause urination difficulty. This is a sign of nerve damage. Long-term full bladder has nothing good to your kidneys and is prone to develop urinary tract infection.

Evidence-based statistics from NKF reveals that around 30% of patients with Type 1 diabetes and 10-40% of Type 2 patients would progress to Renal Failure in the end. Scary isn’t it?

One thing you need to know is that no matter what kind of kidney disease, they get a chance to progress to Renal Failure sooner or later if left untreated or poorly controlled. To those with high blood pressure, diabetes, nephritis, or some other kidney disease, please keep an eye open for your illness condition.