Why Can High Blood Pressure Cause Kidney Disease?

Why can high blood pressure cause kidney disease, which is called Hypertensive Nephropathy in clinic, a secondary chronic kidney disease. For patients with high blood pressure, with times passing by, about 15% of them will develop into chronic kidney disease or Hypertensive Nephropathy. So for those people, they all want to know the reason why high blood pressure can cause kidney disease and they also want to know how to prevent themselves from getting this complication of high blood pressure.
How does hypertension cause chronic kidney disease?
High blood pressure is a major cause of kidney disease and kidney failure (end-stage renal disease). Hypertension can cause damage to the blood vessels and filters in the kidney, making removal of waste from the body difficult. Long time hypertension can cause sclerosis of renal glomeruli, leading to the insufficiency of blood and oxygen.
In modern society, with the changing of diet, people take in more and more meat and even fat and excessive sugar, and so on, all of which can lead to more density of blood, thus causing sclerosis and leading to chronic kidney disease if it lasts long.
In addition, the society we live in is full of pressure and competition, which make people under enormous pressure and leading to high blood pressure.
So to prevent high blood pressure, we can follow the following tips.
· Try to keep your blood pressure controlled. You can take exercise regularly such as waling, yoga, and so on, which should not be so strenuous.
· Make sure you get your blood pressure checked on a regular basis.
· Eat a proper diet, which should contain more fruit and vegetables and should be far from fat and salted ones.
· Take the medication your doctor prescribes.
In addition, once people are diagnosed with Hypertensive Nephropathy, a kind of chronic kidney disease which is caused by long time high blood pressure, they should not loose heart. Chinese Medicine can treat it. The main function of Chinese Medicine is expanding blood vessels. As for the high blood pressure, Chinese medicine is for expanding arterioles in every levels, then improve the state of ischemia and anoxia, thus reduce the pressure in blood vessels. If the blood circulation have been improved, the damage on kidneys will be relieved as well. In a word, Chinese Medicine can help both blood pressure and the kidney disease.