How does diabetes hurt the kidney?

Kidney is an extremely important organ of human body. There are millions of small blood vessels with filtering function in the kidney, which are jointly responsible for removing metabolic wastes from human blood. Diabetes can damage the function of this filtration system, resulting in renal insufficiency. The damaged kidney can no longer effectively filter out metabolic wastes in blood, eventually leading to kidney disease. How does diabetes cause nephropathy? When we eat and digest protein foods, we will produce a large amount of metabolic waste. In the kidney, a large number of capillaries and small holes in the wall of blood vessels are natural filters, which can effectively filter out metabolic waste and retain beneficial components in blood. As blood Read More …