Cause of Heart Failure on Patient with ESRD

If you are a patients with end stage kidney disease, you may have a risk to develop heart failure. And meantime, fatigue, dizziness and poor appetite may also follow. What causes heart on patient with end stage renal disease (ESRD)?

Heart failure in ESRD may cause by the following factors:

8 reasons explain the possible causes of heart failure in ESRD patients.
Hardening of the arteries. This is the most frequent cause of heart failure. The disease starts with fat deposit in the arteries and then plaques is forming, which blocks the small arteries causing hardening of the arteries. People with ESRD experience a higher risk of suffering from heart failure.

High blood pressure. Undoubtedly, high blood pressure contributes to heart failure or other heart disease induced by ESRD. It damages the heart health even in people without any kind of kidney disease.

- Influence of uremic toxins

- Dialysis arteriovenous fistula

- Imbalance of electrolytes and acidosis

- Renal anemia

- Excessive blood volume

- Atherosclerosis

How to prevent Heart Failure?

- Lifestyle Changes. Follow a low salt diet, stay away from smoking, exercising more, decrease the amount of alcohol your drink, keep an eye open if you have a family history such as diabetes mellitus, take regular physical check, monitor your blood sugar regularly, lose weight and take medications.


- Lower the high blood pressure. Normal blood pressure is 130/85. As hypertension is one of the most important factors involving in the heart failure treatment, lowering the high levels of blood pressure is the right as well as effective move. Another suggestion for those with decreased kidney function and proteinuria, they may benefit from an even lower blood pressure of 125/75mmHg. Conversely, the reduced blood pressure may contribute to slow down the progression of kidney disease.