High Blood Pressure

High blood pressure or hypertension makes your heart work harder. As a result, blood vessels get damaged throughout the body. Damage of the blood vessels of kidney leads to stoppage of removal of wastes and extra fluid from the body. It makes high blood pressure one of the leading causes of kidney failure. People with kidney failure must either receive a kidney transplant or go on dialysis. Every year, high blood pressure causes more than 25,000 new cases of kidney failure in the United States. For further information, read.

Kidney damage can not be noticed. It has no symptoms. It can be detected only through medical tests. Blood tests will show whether your kidneys are removing wastes efficiently or not. Having too much creatinine in your blood, is a sign of kidney damage. Photos of kidneys taken by ultrasound also show if there is any kidney failure. Another sign is proteinuria, or protein in your urine. Proteinuria has also been shown to be associated with heart disease and damage of blood vessels.

If you have kidney damage, you should keep your blood pressure below 130/80. For that, you have to keep a track on blood pressure measurements. Blood pressure monitor and digital blood pressure cuffs help you to keep a track on blood pressure measurement. Blood pressure information, in the form of blood pressure charts and blood pressure readings, help administer the perfect blood pressure medication.