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¿Esto suena natural? Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD)

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a long-term, progressive deterioration of renal function. Almost every kind of kidney disease, diabetes and high blood pressure can cause CKD. CKD will lead to various kinds of complications; uremia, renal anemia and bone disorder.
Uremia is the condition that toxins, such as metabolites or excess mineral, accumulate in the body because the patient's kidney cannot excrete them. Hyperkalemia (too much potassium in the blood) can cause arrhythmia. The symptoms like uremic lung (resulting in pulmonary edema) or disorder in both central and peripheral nervous system can be seen in CKD patients.
Renal anemia sometimes occurs in the CKD patient. Erythropoietin (EPO) is a hormone made in kidney, which has an important role in red blood cell production. CKD patients lack this hormone and suffer from anemia.
Bone disorder caused by CKD is called CKD-MBD (mineral and bone disorder). Kidney is a place that vitamin D is activated. Vitamin D helps absorb calcium from intestine. Lack of activated vitamin D can cause bone disorders like osteitis fibrosa, rickets and adynamic bone disease.
As for treatments of CKD, there are diet therapy and dialysis. The patients should eat low protein and low salt meal.

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