Secondary Chronic Kidney Disease--Hypertensive Nephropathy

Even if people have had high blood pressure, they usually do not know what complications would happen in a few years. Heart disease may be the most concerned for them, but they always ignore the most fatal one—kidney disease (Hypertensive Nephropathy ). High blood pressure will narrow and harden main artery and the blood capillary. In kidneys, a large number of tiny blood vessel balls are in charge of blood filtration. Little tiny blood vessels cannot bear the high pressure, so they will become narrow in order to reduce the blood infusion. As a result, it will directly lead to the lack of blood and oxygen. Renal inflammation would occur to hurt kidney tissues.

This damaged process would last for a long time and gradually hurt kidneys. So in most time, people would have no consciousness for no obvious symptoms present in the body. "I have a strong urination at night. In the beginning, I though it may be caused more water input. Now I know it is a sign of hypertensive nephropathy."

What are the specific physical performance of hypertensive nephropathy? Specific performance:

Early nocturia increased, followed by proteinuria, individual cases have occurred hematuria, usually without low back pain. Often associated with atherosclerotic retinopathy, left ventricular hypertrophy, coronary heart disease, heart failure, cerebral arteriosclerosis, cerebral vascular accident. Malignant hypertension is associated with cardiovascular complications, the rapid development of the disease, proteinuria and hematuria, renal function rapidly diminished, and even uremia.

High blood pressure can cause complications of the heart, brain, kidney and other organs, can lead to high morbidity and mortality, 10% of the hypertensive patients died of renal failure. Therefore, high blood pressure and kidney disease is one pair of real "loser".

Hypertensive nephropathy to patients is a very serious, so in order to reduce such damage, must be timely treatment.

Could Folic Acid Cause Hypertensive Nephropathy?

What is Hypertensive Nephropathy

Hypertensive Nephropathy is a medical condition in which chronic high blood pressure causes kidney damages. As the name suggests, hypertensive nephropathy is caused by high blood pressure. Why hypertension harms kidneys? Blood pressure means the force of blood against the walls of the blood vessels. Extra fluid in the body or the narrowed blood vessel will raise the blood pressure.


What is Folic acid

Folic acid has active ingredients of folic acid. It is used in therapeutic drug levels, heart injury, folate deficiency, rheumatoid arthritis, anemia. Common side effects of Folic acid include nausea, fatigue, weakness, fever, breathing difficulty.

On Oct, 18, 2012: 80,246 people reported to have side effects when taking Folic acid. Among them, 12 people (0.01%) have Hypertensive Nephropathy.Gender of people who have Hypertensive nephropathy when taking Folic acid :

Age of people who have Hypertensive nephropathy when taking Folic acid :

Top conditions involved for these people:

• Wheezing
• Paroxysmal nocturnal haemoglobinuria
• Haemoglobin abnormal
• Diabetes mellitus non-insulin-dependent
• Thyroidectomy

High Blood Pressure (Hypertensive Nephropathy)

Hypertension is a condition when your blood pressure is recorded consistently at the level of 140/90 mmHg or higher. Most of the time, hypertension does not show any symptoms. The problem is that Hypertension is not just a cause of kidney disease, but it's also a result of damage created by the kidney disease. High blood pressure makes your heart work harder and damages your blood vessels. As the blood vessels in your heart become damaged, they lose their effectiveness in screening the wastes from your body. This increases the fluids in your body and increases your blood pressure even more.

The damage of the blood vessels in your kidneys due to high blood pressure is what is known as Hypertensive Nephropathy.

What are the symptoms of Hypertensive Nephropathy?

If high blood pressure runs in your family, the presence of the disease seems to increase chances of developing kidney disease. Symptoms of kidney disease due to high blood pressure include:

• A need to urinate more often, especially at night
• Decrease in amount of urine or difficulty urinating
• Edema (fluid retention), especially in the lower legs

What are the Types of Hypertensive Nephropathy?

There are 2 types of hypertensive nephropathy, namely benign nephrosclerosis and malignant nephrosclerosis. Benign nephrosclerosis is most present in people over 60 years old while the rare malignant nephrosclerosis occurs only in 1 to 5 percent of people with hypertension.

Malignant nephrosclerosis only occurs in a case of hypertension with diastolic blood pressure exceeding 130mm Hg. This is present in patients that already have an existing kidney disease that developed into malignant hypertension.

How is Hypertensive Nephropathy prevented?

• To prevent hypertension-related kidney damage:
• Keep your blood pressure below 130/80
• Have your blood pressure checked regularly
• Maintain a proper diet
• Take any medications prescribed by your doctor