Well, now we know that smoking can not only damage your heart and circulatory system and lungs and skin and your whole immune system, but there is a strong negative relationship between smoking and kidney function as well. This is an important fact in an age when diabetes is increasing in the old and young alike.
Smoking can interfere with
medicines used to treat high blood pressure. Uncontrolled or poorly controlled
high blood pressure is a leading cause of kidney disease.
Smoking slows the blood flow to
vital organs like the kidneys and can worsen already existing kidney disease.
Smoking slows blood flow to your
feet, making sores and infections harder to heal.
https://www.kidney.org/news/ekidney/may12/Smoking
According to the Multiple Risk
Factor Intervention Trial, smoking is one of the leading risk factors that can
lead to end stage renal disease.
Smoking most always increases the
heart rate and blood pressure.
Smoking increases production of
angiotensin, a hormone produced in the kidney, resulting in fluid being
retained by the body and this also contributes to increased blood pressure.
Smoking narrows the blood vessels
in the kidneys.
Smoking damages the arterioles, the
arterial branches.
Smoking contributes to the
thickening and hardening of the renal arteries.
Smoking accelerates the general
loss of kidney function.
Smoking increases the rick of
proteinuria, the excessive amount of protein in the urine.
For people who have had a
transplant of the kidney and have not stopped smoking, their chances of
survival decreases due to the risk of cardiovascular problems.
For smokers, the toxic chemical arsenic
can build up over time and lead to acute tubular necrosis with acute renal
failure. This is a condition in which the cells of the tubules, which carry
urine to the ureters, begin to die due to lack of oxygen. This leads to acute
renal failure, a sudden loss of kidney function.
Test animals, according to a
researcher in the National Toxicology Program, had an increase in tumors
of the renal tubules after inhaling the tobacco ingredient benzene.
Smokers also have a higher risk of
kidney cancer due to these same toxic chemicals filtering into
the kidneys and then the urine.
http://www.healthcommunities.com/quit-smoking/overview-health-effects-of-smoking.shtml
http://www.siteman.wustl.edu/ContentPage.aspx?id=4521
And if you have children I say STOP
smoking now. You don’t want them catching a dose
of kidney disease from secondhand smoke any more then you want it
yourself!
And I know all this sounds really scary
and stark, and I know I promised not to harp on medical issues too much on this
website, but if you or a loved one is ill now, you will not brush
this off.
And don’t forget, anytime you want
a skilled compassionate phone coach in a donations-only service, you are
invited to contact me at:
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