What is the Relationship Between Diabetes and Kidney Disease

In recent years, with the improvement of living standards and the advent of an aging society, the incidence of diabetes showed a rapid growth trend. The disadvantage of Diabetes is that it harms blood vessels.the damage to the large blood vessels can lead to cardiovascular disease and to the microvascular damage can lead to fundus lesions and kidney disease. Why is high blood sugar can cause kidney disease? Expert explains: "lack of insulin secretion will cause high-sugar environment in a long term, effect renal arteries, result in microcirculation barrier, then cause renal ischemia and hypoxia, endothelial cell damage, eventually form a common complication of diabetes - - diabetic nephropathy. Many people know nephritis can lead to uremia, patients with uremia means lifelong dialysis or kidney transplant, but diabetes can lead to uremia,most people doesn’t know it. "If diabetes is not well controlled, kidney damage inevitably occurs after 10 years. “ Currently,we don’t figure out effective treatments to repress the process of diabetic nephropathy, once kidney damage occurs ,without proper treatments, renal function will decline, eventually developed into uremia. Early prevention and early treatment is the key Diabetic nephropathy is divided into five stages. At the first and second stage, urinary albumin excretion rate may be normal, but in fact kidney becomes hypertrophy, glomerular structure has been damaged. But at the third stage,if it can not be well treated, the patient will appear massive proteinuria, renal function will continue to deteriorate and eventually develop into uremia. In order to find out the diabetic kidney disease at the early stage, patients with type 1 diabetes will be carried out kidney disease screening after five years; but for type 2 diabetes, once diagnosed, patients must accept nephropathy screening once a year to check the kidney function and proteinuria.