Diabetic Nephropathy Risk Factors

Diabetic Nephropathy means that diabetes affects kidneys causing kidney disease. Most people with diabetes always ignore this complication on kidney. However, diabetic nephropathy would bring them many risk factors. Now some risk factors for people’s health will be introduced to you in order to avoid the occurrence or development of diabetic nephropathy.

Diabetic nephropathy in the early stage

Due to long-term diabetes, the high blood sugar is easy to hurt any organs or tissues in your body, such as feet, heart, eyes, and kidneys. Among all of these, kidney damage is the main and the most serious for people, which is considered as the main cause of death of diabetics. However, in the early stage, people would not have uncomfortable feeling but only have some abnormal indexes. A great amount of protein in urine presents and it is the result of damage in glomeruli that are the tissues in kidneys to filter blood. in this way, people would lose much protein and result in hypoproteinemia. Thereby people would have dizzy, fatigue, weak immunity and swelling in tissues or organs.

Diabetic nephropathy in the end stage

When people step into the end stage, kidney failure is the biggest risk factor for their health or even their lives. Less care or ineffective treatment will lead to kidney failure from diabetic nephropathy. Kidney failure means that more than 15% or 10% of glomeruli are dead and cannot help people to discharge the toxins from the body. As a result, too much toxins deposit in blood vessels to poison every organ.

As the illness condition develops, people would have high level of potassium in blood and cause palpitation or heart rest to threaten people’s lives. Furthermore, people would have high level of phosphorus, so it will lead to osteoporosis. That is the reason why people with renal failure are easy to cataclasis even they only fell down.


After you know the risk factors the diabetic nephropathy brings about, you can know some terrible things may happen. So I hope you take some effective treatment as soon as possible to avoid all of these happen.