Mumbai (PTI): With an increase in number of hypertension cases in the city, doctors feel that the number of renal failures would also go up as the two are interlinked.
To highlight this, nephrologists (kidney specialists) across the city on Thursday observed 'World Kidney Day' by conducting several free camps for testing blood pressure and diabeties among citizens.
The campaign, 'Keep Your Pressure Down', held to highlight the importance of an appropriate lifestyle to keep blood pressure normal as it leads to kidney problems and diabetes, talks of kidney-related diseases as common and harmful but treatable if attended to on time.
According to doctors, uncontrolled high-blood pressure is one of the causes for kidney failure. Severe high-blood pressure can harm kidney function over a relatively short period of time.
Kidneys are responsible for the genesis and maintenance of blood pressure. An enzyme called renin maintains normal blood pressure and the kidney's ability to balance salt and water level in the body. When one of them is deranged, an individual gets high blood pressure, a city-based doctor said.
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