Do you suffer from high blood pressure? Be careful, check your kidneys, here's the reason you didn't know

Nga Armend Pire
2025-01-12 14:51:00 | Sociale


Most individuals blame heart problems for high blood pressure, but that's not all. The kidney is primarily responsible for these health fluctuations, playing an important role in blood pressure. Certain substances that are produced in the kidneys are responsible for narrowing the blood vessels, controlling blood pressure. Invited to the studio of the show Diagnosis by Freskida Miloti, Prof. Asc. Marsida Duli, nephrologist from Premium Clinic, showed the role of the kidneys in the process of normalizing blood pressure.

 

"It is only the kidney that is responsible for regulating blood pressure, not the heart. It is precisely the kidney in its renin, which is a very important substance that is produced in the kidney, which is then transformed into angiotensin one and two, which are responsible for vasoconstriction or, in other words, the narrowing of blood vessels and the increase in arterial pressure . It is only the kidney that is the commander and commands our arterial pressure. If I have high blood pressure, that is, high blood pressure, the pressure going to the blood vessels of my kidney's glomerulus is high, and it is at these moments that my kidney will excrete, expel the excess. The glomerulus is the basic functional unit of the kidney. If I have low voltages, then my glomerulus receives this information and the tendency is to increase the voltage." - said the nephrologist.

 

In most cases of diagnosis, high blood pressure does not have a primary cause. This occupies a significant amount, up to 85% of the general cases that suffer from this health problem. And yet, doctors appeal for increased care in lifestyle, the prohibition of smoking, alcohol and various drugs.

 

"85% of cases are essential, primary hypertension, or in other words without finding a cause. We must be careful about high blood pressure values ​​at young ages. We must exclude all secondary causes, starting from the kidney, because the kidney also causes hypertension, but on the other hand suffers from hypertension, we must exclude cardiovascular heart causes, we must exclude adrenal causes, i.e. hormonal, adrenal tumors, we must exclude thyroid causes. Excluding drugs, amphetamine, cocaine mainly for increasing blood pressure figures, we must exclude contraceptives... And ibuprofen, which is used in large quantities. Voltaren, ibuprofen, naproxen." - explained doctor Marsida Duli.

 

A part of patients who suffer from tension often state that they are used to a high and stable tension as such. But this adaptation is quite harmful, since such normality hides a series of health damages that follow. Part of these damages is hypertensive nephropathy in the kidneys, or damage to the blood vessels, brain, heart attacks, damage to the eyes and many other organs.

 

"It often happens that they measure the voltage and it says 14-15, I'm used to this voltage, I don't feel anything. No, high voltage figures, when it increases gradually, our organism adapts to these figures and does not show symptoms, but the damage continues. The first damage is in the kidneys, when hypertensive nephropathy or nephroangiosclerosis, which we call chronic kidney damage, begins and appears, the damage is in the blood vessels of the whole body, including the brain, the problems of cerebrovascular accidents, dementia, forgetfulness, therefore, begin cardiovascular problems, heart attacks, attacks, aneurysms, expansion of blood vessels that can rupture, can rupture, eye damage, retinopathy problems hypertension, and many, many other organs." - said nephrologist Marsida Duli, among others.

 

The show Diagnosis, by the moderator and author Freskida Miloti, comes to the viewers of A2 CNN every Saturday at 18:15, with different topics and very important for health. The rebroadcast of the show is every Sunday at 18:15. Stay informed by the most professional doctors who are part of our shows, for better health. (A2 Televizion)

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