Diabetic nephropathy is a chronic kidney disease caused by diabetes, belonging to the microvascular complications of diabetes. Its main manifestations include proteinuria, hypertension, and progressive deterioration of renal function.Long-term high blood glucose leads to glomerular hyperfiltration and hypertension, damaging the charge barrier and mechanical barrier of the glomerular basement membrane. Hyperglycemia activates abnormal metabolic pathways […]
Category: Diabetic Complications
People with diabetes have up to 4 times higher risk of anemia
Do you recently feel weak all over and get out of breath after climbing just two flights of stairs? Don’t assume it’s just normal physical decline with age—chances are, anemia is to blame! Research shows that people with diabetes face 2 to 4 times higher risk of anemia than healthy people, and the longer they […]
Symptoms, Staging and Diagnosis of Diabetic Retinopathy
Diabetic retinopathy is a common microvascular complication of diabetes. Typical symptoms include decreased vision, distorted vision, and irreversible blindness. Its pathological features are microaneurysms, hemorrhage, exudation and neovascularization. Long-term hyperglycemia is the main inducement, and patients with poor glycemic control are more susceptible. Other risk factors include hypertension, hyperlipidemia, long duration of diabetes, pregnancy, etc. […]
How Does Diabetes Affect the Eyes?
Not all patients with diabetes develop eye symptoms. Symptoms typically appear in those with a disease duration of more than 10 years, and may include varying degrees of vision loss, blurred vision, visual field defects, and even blindness. They may also be accompanied by eye pain, distorted vision, abnormal color perception, and cataracts.Diabetic patients with […]
How Long Can You Live With Diabetic Kidney Failure?
Diabetic kidney failure often leads to cardiovascular and cerebrovascular complications, resulting in a relatively poor prognosis. However, with effective blood glucose control and complication prevention, patients can generally survive for about 20 to 30 years.Diabetic kidney failure usually progresses to uremia in approximately 10 years. With renal replacement therapy such as hemodialysis, survival can be […]
Five Stages of Diabetic Kidney Disease: Which Stage Are You In?
Diabetic kidney disease is classified into 5 stages mainly according to the Mogensen classification. The characteristics of each stage are related to Urinary Albumin Excretion Rate (UAER), Glomerular Filtration Rate (GFR), and clinical manifestations. Early intervention can delay disease progression.Stage Ⅰ: Glomerular HyperfiltrationThis is the initial renal change in diabetes, consistent with high blood glucose […]
Six Symptoms of Diabetic Kidney Disease
There are six common symptoms of diabetic kidney disease worth noting: 1.ProteinuriaInearly-stage diabetic kidney disease, there is no clinical proteinuria, and only radioimmunoassay can detect microalbuminuria. The only manifestation of early clinical diabetic kidney disease is proteinuria, which gradually develops from intermittent to persistent.2.HypertensionThe prevalence of hypertension in type 1 diabetic patients without nephropathy is […]
What is Diabetic Kidney Disease?
Diabetic kidney disease is one of the most common complications of diabetes. It refers to glomerular damage caused by long‑term hyperglycemia, leading to glomerulosclerosis and tubulointerstitial fibrosis. In the early stage, there are usually no obvious symptoms, and blood pressure may be normal or slightly elevated.The incidence increases with the duration of diabetes. In the […]
What are the Complications of Diabetes?
Complications of diabetes are mainly divided into acute and chronic complications.The most common acute complications of diabetes are diabetic ketoacidosis and lactic acidosis.Chronic diabetic complications mainly include cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, such as coronary heart disease, hypertension, and myocardial infarction. In addition, diabetes may cause retinopathy, diabetic nephropathy, peripheral neuropathy, and diabetic foot.Other complications include:
Hypertension is the most common companion complication of diabetes
When diabetic patients develop the combination of “diabetes plus hypertension”, it increases the burden on patients in three aspects: physical burden, difficulty of treatment, and financial cost of treatment. At the same time, the patient’s health risk increases significantly. It may accelerate the damage to target organs such as the kidneys and fundus.Doctors remind that […]