Kidney Function And Diabetes. When the blood vessels in the kidneys are injured your kidneys cannot clean your blood properly. About 25 of people with diabetes eventually develop kidney disease.
Blood pressure is too high. You are also more likely to develop kidney disease if you have diabetes and. High blood glucose sugar levels and high blood pressure can damage the kidneys and prevent them from functioning properly or even cause them to fail completely.
Doctors warned him that if he didn t take the proper measures to improve kidney function he was facing the possibility of a transplant or dialysis.
Diabetic nephropathy kidney disease that results from diabetes is the number one cause of kidney failure. Identification of chronic kidney disease in people with diabetes requires screening for proteinuria as well as an assessment of serum creatinine converted into an estimated glomerular function rate egfr. The end goal for treating kidney disease as early as possible is to prevent kidney failure which is when the kidneys have lost most of their ability to function. You may have protein in your urine.