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Taking Your Blood Pressure Meds Can Improve Kidney Disease Outcomes
You’d think it would be completely straightforward. Since one of the things that sometimes results from kidney disease is higher blood pressure, a kidney disease sufferer with hypertension problems would naturally take their medication. But a recent report has suggested that one-third of these patients actually don’t maintain their blood pressure treatments.
Researchers from the University of Cincinnati and the Cincinnati Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Center have just published a report that describes this problem. They took two years’ worth of data from 7,227 patients at the VA who had chronic kidney disease (CKD), and who also suffered from hypertension. And this was when they uncovered the astonishing fact that about thirty-three percent of these patients either didn’t take their blood pressure medications, or had what was described as “poor medication adherence.”
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Diabetes and Kidney Diseases: A Harmful Combination
Diseases are among the most unfortunate realities in human life. Illnesses are dreaded as they can cause not only inconveniences but even impairments in a personís lifestyle. The pain and suffering one has to endure because of some ailment is hardly describable, add to this the distress and misery experienced by oneís family, friends, and loved ones. What could be more devastating than a dreaded disease other than the combination of two or more diseases? And this was just what some Australian doctors have discovered – the combination of diabetes and kidney diseases.
August 6, 2006, Google News – a recent research in Australia has just discovered that one out of two patients diagnosed with Type II Diabetes also suffer a type of chronic diseases in the kidneys, and the figures may be even higher than what has been observed, doctors feared. Blood samples from four thousand diabetic patients were tested by the Baker Heart Research Institute and the results showed that though the patients were seemingly fine except for their diabetes, they had underlying kidney conditions that remained undetected for years. This has pushed Australian doctors and health institutes to perform mandatory tests to screen kidney diseases among Type II Diabetes patients, according to a following report by Yahoo! News. The tests recommended include not only simple urine tests, but more extensive blood tests.
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