Can High Blood Pressure Aggravate Diabetic Nephropathy

Diabetes patients are usually accompanied by high blood pressure, which will increase kidney's burden. Diabetic nephropathy patients should pay much attention to the control of blood pressure and to decline blood sugar and to reduce internal pressure of glomerulus are the main ways of protecting glomerular mesangium. The instability of blood sugar can cause the secretion of renin, angiotensin and aldosterone, which increase kidney's burden. So patients with high blood pressure must decline their blood pressure below 140/90.
Diabetic nephropathy is the common complication of diabetes and its clinical symptoms are proteinuria, progressive renal damage, high blood pressure, dropsy and uremia. With the extending of people's life and the change of life style, the morbidity of diabetes has a straight rising trend.
High blood pressure not only aggravate the worsening of diabetic nephropathy, also affect the excretion of urine protein of diabetic nephropathy patients, which can speed up the damage of renal function. So diabetes patients should prevent kidney diseases in time and also measure blood pressure termly. Knowing the condition in time can help the treatment for kidney diseases a lot and play a immeasurable role in treatment for diabetes.