Diabetes and Your Kidneys: Don’t Wait for Symptoms
When we talk about diabetes, we usually think about high blood sugar. But diabetes can affect almost every part of the body. One of the organs that can quietly suffer over the years is the kidney. Diabetic kidney disease is one of the major causes of chronic kidney disease and kidney failure. The worrying part is that it often develops silently. A person may have significant kidney damage and still feel completely normal.The kidneys usually do not give us an early warning that something is going wrong. High blood sugar, when poorly controlled over a long period, can gradually damage the tiny blood vessels and filtering units inside the kidneys. The damage may begin long before a person notices any symptoms.Many people believe that........
