Renal Failure Relationship with Diabetes
Author: Ham Pato
Diabetes is the most common cause of kidney failure, and constitutes more than 40 percent of new cases. Even when drugs and diet can control diabetes, the disease can lead to nephropathy and kidney failure. Most diabetics do not develop kidney disease severe enough to cause kidney failure. There are about 16 million diabetics in the United States and of those, 100,000 suffer from kidney failure as a result of diabetes.
People with kidney failure must undergo dialysis, which replaces some of the filtering functions of the kidneys, or transplantation to receive a kidney from a healthy donor. Most Americans who develop kidney failure can receive medical care funded by the federal government. In 1997 the federal government spent about $ 11,800 million in the care of patients with renal insufficiency.
Black Americans, American Indians and the descendants of Hispanic Americans have diabetes, kidney disease and kidney failure at a rate above average. Scientists have been unable to explain this phenomenon and can not fully explain the interaction of factors leading to diabetic nephropathy. These factors include heredity, diet, and other conditions such as hypertension. It has been observed that high blood pressure and high concentrations of glucose in the blood increase the risk of suffering a diabetic renal finish.