Why Does Diabetes Cause Kidney Failure?
“Hello have you ever asked yourself the question why does diabetes cause kidney failure? Well my name is Sonya Wade and I’m a faculty at Vanderbilt University School of Nursing and I’m also a family nurse practitioner and if you have ever asked yourself that question I hopefully will help you answer that today. The reason that diabetes causes kidney failure is because your body when you eat proteins, proteins have to be broken down into a waste product. As that waste product is sent through the tiny vessels in your kidneys when you have high blood sugar those vessels, these thin healthy blood vessels with no sugar and these having heavy sugar attached to the blood vessels they move through those vessels very slowly and they tend to clot and cause the vessels to not let the filters in the kidneys work as well as they should. Over time with the filters having to work extra hard to move the waste product into the urine so your body will eliminate it that protein ends up staying in the blo
