What are the causes of hypertensive nephropathy?

Kidney disease can be divided into a lot of kinds, and high blood pressure is one of them. The damage to patients with this disease is pretty big, so everyone should take it seriously, especially the patients with this disease, must pay attention to the disease and learn more about the relevant knowledge of the disease. Then what are the causes of hypertensive nephropathy?


1. Long-term high blood pressure.
Hypertension is a serious disease, it will directly cause kidney pathological changes if not controlled for a long period, such as glomerular sclerosis and renal interstitial fibrosis which can lead to kidney function decline or finally develop into hypertensive nephropathy. Patients should take their blood pressure frequently and keep their blood pressure within the normal range and better take low salt, low fat food.
2. Unreasonable diet.
Many diseases have a direct relationship with diet, no matter the healthy group or disease group, regular and controlled diet is often suggested. Generally the onset of kidney disease is very slow, which need us require ourselves strictly like eating less food that are bad for kidney.
3. Bad living habits in the daily life.
Generally speaking, smoking and drinking are two factors most threatening to our body, it can also aggravate the high blood pressure and the damage to kidney function. Besides, emotion, staying up late, overtired and drug abuse all have chances causing hypertension nephropathy.
According to the causes above, everyone should pay more attention to their own living habits and diet, thus can not only do good to your whole body, but also make contribution to your kidney function.

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