Dialysis Patients Should Prevent Heart and Blood Vessels Diseases

Dialysis patients are more likely to have heart and blood vessels diseases for kidney disease, high blood pressure and other health problem. Therefore, it is very important for Dialysis patients to take preventive measures to prevent heart and blood vessels problem.

1. Keep high blood pressure within control

For the patients with kidney disease, their doctors usually prescribe them antihypertensive medicines including angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors or angiotensin receptor blockers (ARBs). These medicines are beneficial for protecting of heart and blood vessels. Moreover, the patients should limit the water and sodium intake properly so as to preventing fluid from building up in body and increasing blood pressure.

2. Control blood sugar within control

For patients with Diabetic Nephropathy, they should monitor their blood sugar as often as their doctors told them and adjust the insulin dosage properly under their doctors’ guidance.

3. Reduce high cholesterol levels

High cholesterol level can increase the chance of developing heart and blood vessels diseases dialysis patients. Therefore, it is very important for dialysis patients to keep a low-fat diet and exercise more.

4. Treat anemia

Anemia is a common symptom for patients with kidney disease. This can make the patients feel tired thus increasing the chance of developing left ventricular hypertrophy. The patients should increase the iron intake and depend on erythropoietin to alleviating anemia.

5. Keep a good emotion

For dialysis can disturb patients’ normal life and brings much pain to them. Therefore, the dialysis patients often feel upset depressed, torturous. These bad emotions can affect the dialysis effect seriously. Moreover, they can increase the incidence of heart and blood vessels diseases. The patients with kidney disease should keep a correct attitude towards dialysis. If they can arrange their life properly, dialysis will not affect their life too much.


If dialysis patients can take effective preventive measures against heart and blood diseases, they will be able to decline their incidence greatly.