Post Date December, 03 2023
Chronic kidney disease has become a global health problem, but our public has little knowledge of kidney disease. The research results published by the Department of Nephrology of Peking University First Hospital in The Lancet, the top medical journal, showed that the total prevalence of chronic kidney disease in China was 10.8%, and the awareness rate was only 12.5%.
Chronic kidney disease can be asymptomatic in the early stage, and most people do not know that they are ill, and the effect of early prevention and treatment is the best. When the renal function is irreversible, it will bring huge economic burden to individuals, families and society, and the treatment effect is far less than that of early control.
So, which people are at high risk of kidney disease and are the key screening targets?
1 diabetes
The reason why diabetes is listed in the first article is that more and more people have developed from diabetes to kidney disease, and the proportion has exceeded that of primary kidney disease in order to catch up with the speed of the British Premier League and the United States.
If you have diabetes and have a medical history of more than 5 years, you should consciously check the microalbumin every half a year or every year, so as to find early signs of kidney disease.
2 Hypertension
Modern people like to eat salty and salty, which is a great burden on blood vessels. It seems to be an "abnormal" phenomenon that there are no relatives or friends in the family with hypertension.
High blood pressure is also an important risk factor for the occurrence and progression of kidney disease. Generally, our normal blood pressure is below 130/80mmHg, and 140/90 is the normal high risk line. If we break further, we can be diagnosed as hypertension. Many people don't know when they don't take their blood pressure, which is terrifically high.
Poor blood pressure control can gradually damage renal function. For patients with hypertension, they should have the awareness of routine urine examination every year.
3 High uric acid
Don't underestimate the high uric acid. Now the living standard has improved. People with high uric acid are very common! But its harm is not small, causing gout pain to death. It can also lead to chronic renal damage and even renal failure. According to the European Association for Dialysis and Transplantation, uric acid nephropathy accounts for 0.6-1% of the dialysis of uremia.
You have to keep your mouth shut! Don't forget the urine test and renal function when rechecking uric acid.
4 Metabolic disorders with obesity as the core
Obesity not only refers to obesity in the whole body, but also includes people with only fat belly. Obesity itself can cause obesity nephropathy, and can also cause a series of metabolic disorders such as high blood pressure, high blood fat, high blood sugar, and indirectly lead to kidney problems.
Maintaining a healthy weight and body shape will help the body return to the normal metabolic level and reduce the burden on the kidney.
5 In addition to the above
In addition to the above, people with a family history of kidney disease, recurrent tonsillitis in adolescents, upper respiratory tract infection, and the age of more than 60 years old are all at higher risk than ordinary people.
When there are listed high risk situations, we must not ignore the kidney! The screening of kidney disease is not complicated. A simple urine routine can reflect many problems. If you don't want to go to the hospital, you can buy a urine test paper and do your own screening at home. Check whether there are abnormal items such as "occult blood" and "protein".
