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Margaret Said:

Hypertension related Kidney disease?

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Hello. The life expectancy with this disease is directly related to just how damaged the kidneys are. There are so many variables that effect just how long a person may live with this. Is the patient compliant ie; diet, medications, smoking, drinking etc..? How well is the patients hypertension controlled? All that I have mentioned and then some directly effect how long a person may live with this.
To answer the question of how a person dies from this, they most often die of kidney failure. When a person has an organ system that is failing, it frequently causes other organ systems to fail. The body tries to compensate using everything it has. There is also the risk of a fatal infection such as pneumonia as kidney patients are very ill and tend to be in bed. Another risk factor would be a blood clot that would cause a stroke or heart attack due to the same reason. As I said earlier, there are many variables that come into play. I hope that this has been helpful. If you need information that is a bit more in depth, feel free to e-mail me and I will try and help. Best of luck and I hope that this has been helpful.

Leah Said:

Need some information on Hypertension related Kidney disease...?

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A person should not die from hypertension related kidney disease, because the patient would go on dialysis, and could possibly get a kidney transplant from a living donor or cadaver donor.

According to the National Kidney Foundation, diabetes is the leading cause of kidney disease, and hypertension is #2. Diabetics frequently also have hypertension.

I do not have the numbers for you on deaths relating to hypertension & kidney disease. Perhaps you could get those numbers by contacting the people at the site below.

Grace Said:

How do you say in Spanish? "Hypertension is a major risk factor for kidney and heat diseases"?

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La hipertension es el un factor principal para el desarrollo de enfermedades renales y cardiacas

I made a slight change in the translation because a literal one would sound awkward in Spanish



Hope this helps

Terry Said:

How do the kidney and vascular diseases contribute to hypertension?

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Primarily, it's the other way around. Hypertension contributes to kidney and vascular diseases!

The kidneys autoregulate blood flow by controlling the diameter of tiny blood vessels going into and out of each of the microscopic urine-making structures called the "nephrons". When the pressure is high, these blood vessels become stiff from overgrowth of the muscle walls used to resist the flow. The nephrons themselves are damaged from pressure, and the organ's microstructure is slowly replaced by scar.

High blood pressure also represents a challenge to the rest of the bodily blood vessels, which become thickened in response to the pressure, and which are prone to shearing injuries to the lining. This is especially true when the lining is infiltrated with cholesterol in the form of atherosclerotic plaques. As the blood vessels become thickened and stiff, the pulsations of flow hammer away at the walls, creating things like aneurysms (balloon-like dilations prone to rupture) and blockages where the atherosclerotic plaques rupture and clot. This latter mechanism is commonly the cause of heart attack and stroke, as well as other end-organ damage.

There is one particular phenomenon, however, that DOES relate to your exact question. There is a condition known as renovascular hypertension, and this is one of the forms of high blood pressure that can be traced back to a treatable cause, and can be "cured" by an intervention. Most often, of course, hypertension is considered to be "essential hypertension" which means that there is no specific cause identified, and the hypertension itself needs to be treated because of the risks it poses to the patient's health.

Renovascular hypertension is a problem that occurs in those people who develop flow limiting atherosclerotic plaques in the arteries leading off to the kidneys. When this happens, the flow to the kidneys is substantially decreased, and the kidneys are "fooled" into thinking that there is a problem of flow throughout the body. The kidneys react to a situation that, if the arteries to the kidneys were normal, would probably represent low circulating blood volume. Basically, the kidneys are unable to tell the difference between low flow because the arteries are bad, and low flow because the patient lost a lot of blood from an injury.

The response from the kidney suffering low flow comes in the form of a hormone. This hormone is called "renin" and it has one job. Renin circulates in the blood and it turns a protein called "angiotensinogen" into "angiotensin 1". Angiotensin 1 is a hormone that increases the tension in blood vessels, but more importantly, it is a precursor to "angiontensin 2", which is what it its turned into immediately after passing through the lungs. Angiotensin 2 is one of the most powerful vaso-constricting hormones we have. It increases the blood pressure dramatically.

Renovascular hypertension can be treated by procedures which open up the narrowed blood vessel, but the key is that the problem needs to be recognized first! Sometimes people with this problem go unrecognized for long periods of time.

I hope that helps!

Gertrude Said:

i suffered with fsgs kidney disease with hypertension, how to overcome sexual weakness?

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doctor?

Arnold Said:

does coconut juice cures stage4 chronic kidney disease?

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No it does not.

Basically, the hypertension has irreversibly damaged you kidneys. Your nephologist has probably told you that there may well be dialysis in your future. Talk to him/her about hemo (via the blood) or peritoneal (fluid in the abdomen) dialysis.

Best of luck.