Kidney Disease Raises Heart Attack Risk

Chronic kidney disease patients have higher risk of heart attack than diabetes patients. Take care of your heart if you have kidney disease.
The results from a new study from Marcello Tonelli, MD, of the University of Alberta, and colleagues show that people with kidney disease had more heart attacks than those with diabetes.
These findings could help doctors identify patients who are at risk of heart attack and heart disease. If doctors know who is at risk, they can take steps to prevent heart problems in the future. It really sounds surprising that kidney disease has close relationship with heart attack.
"Our findings suggest that chronic kidney disease could be added to the list of criteria defining people at highest risk of future coronary events," the authors write.
During their study of more than 1,000,000 people, 11,340 participants were admitted to a hospital for heart attack.
Heart attacks were more common in people with kidney disease (without diabetes) than in people with diabetes (without kidney disease).
The rate of heart attacks among people with kidney disease was about 6.9 per 1,000 person years, compared to 5.4 per 1,000 person years among diabetes patients.
According to the results of the current study, kidney disease patients may benefit as much - maybe even more - by taking those same preventive measures. What we should do is to treat chronic kidney disease as long as we diagnose it so as to avoid the complications of it in later stages such as heart disease.
In our Hospital, we mainly use immunotherapy, which is a combination of traditional Chinese medicine and western medicine on the basis that many diseases of kidney are caused by immune disorder.