Hypertension and Renal Disease
How does the kidney with hypertension?
The kidney is the organ responsible for filtering the blood to purify it of toxic substances is also producing substances that help regulate red blood cell production, erythropoietin, and role in maintaining blood pressure, renin .
The kidney participates in the regulatory mechanisms of blood pressure and maintaining blood volume, is involved in the development of hypertension when one of its many functions are not executed properly and is the target organ of hypertension, as it is one that suffers more damage when the pressure figures is permanently high.
What is kidney failure?
It is the result of the failure of kidney function, blood ceases to be purified so that they accumulate toxic substances, some of them such as urea, a result of degradation of proteins, which when found in high amounts can cause coma.
Not manufactured erythropoietin, and this alters the production of red blood cells leads to anemia.
Damaging the regulatory mechanisms of blood pressure and hypertension appears.
Substances in urine are lost to be recovered or not filtered as albumin.
It upsets the balance of lipids in the body and increase cholesterol levels, adding cardiovascular risk factors and promoting the development of arteriosclerosis.
Finally not regulate certain ions in the blood like potassium whose presence in very high quantities can cause arrhythmias and death.
Ever renal failure is a serious and deadly?
There are two forms of kidney involvement. The sharp, which in hours or days lost function in many cases may be recovered, and chronic disease in which the damage occurs over years.
Often there are no symptoms until it has lost a high percentage of renal function. Sometimes the only symptom of kidney damage is the presence of hypertension.
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