For adult onset type 2 diabetic; study has shown that people who are over-weights and obesity, having higher than normal level of blood glucose; are facing a stronger risk. They are at a greater risk of health complications that involve damage to small blood vessels and nerves that can affect the kidneys, make damages to the kidneys known as (diabetic nephropathy), and leading to kidney failure that needs for dialysis.
What is a kidney disease? In layman terms; the kidneys fail their filtering capacity. Kidneys are complicated filtering organs and daily, they process our blood that was brought to the …show more content…
The presence of sugar in the blood can act like poison damaging the Kidney slowly and silently. Eventually, after years the damage becomes apparent and it is known as diabetic Kidney disease. People with kidney failure have to undergo dialysis, an artificial blood-cleaning process, or transplantation to receive a healthy kidney from a donor to live.
Besides High Blood Pressure, Diabetes is one of the most common causes contributing to Kidney failure; accounting to almost half of new cases in the United States. From research, nearly 24 million people in the United States have diabetes and about 200,000 people are living with Kidney disease as a result of diabetes.
Today most diabetics apply management of blood glucose as a treatment; focusing to keep the glucose levels close to normal. Take drugs prescribed by physician, administration of insulin throughout the day and couple with dietary and physical activities to control the progression of getting the Kidney