Re: Diabetes leading to kidney failure? (Simplest explanatio

Jason Johnsonwrote:
In article <e716ld$g62$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
yoless.morteA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (yo-less) wrote:

I am a student doing human biology and my teacher gave me a
question
the other day: how does diabetes lead to kidney failure?
I've checked a few sites but I'm not sure I quite understand the
relation between the two yet. Any help on the topic ASAP will be
greatly appreciated.


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I suggest that you read this book:
COPING WITH KIDNEY DISEASE by Mackenzie Walser, M.D. (kidney
specialist
and a professor at Johns Hopkins)

I own a copy of the book and just looked up diabetes in the index
and
noticed that diabetes is mentionded on about a dozen different
pages. This
term is also mentioned in the index: "Diabetic kidney disease". You
may
want to google that term. I will not explain my understanding of
this
issue since I am NOT a doctor or an expert on this subject.

I have done some research on kidney diseases and there is a kidney
disease
known as Acute tubular necrosis. An interesting question came up
related
to this disorder in another newsgroup. It's my conclusion that
there
should be a disorder called Simple Tubular Necrosis to account for
those
patients that
sustained MINOR damage to the internal structures of the kidneys.
It's my
guess that those patients develop metabolic problems but never
develop the
MAJOR symptoms of ACUTE tubular necrosis. Feel free to label this
kidney
disease--you could even attach your name to it. I am NOT a doctor.
Visit this site:

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000512.htm
Oh, thank you. Very helpful post there:)

I did find out abit about Acute tubular necrosis but the issue is, I'm
doing this on a GCSE level(Edexcel, if you must know). I don't think
our teacher wants us to go that deep into the subject.
What she taught us about the kidneys was it's role in
ultra-filteration, selective reabsorption and how the former is
maintained by pressure from the renal artery and so on.
When she gave us this question, she hadn't taught us anything about
diabetes. So I doubt she wants us to look
that deeply into the subject.

I took your advice and googled 'Diabetic Kidney Disease' and found
this: http://www.diabetes.org/type-1-diabetes/kidney-disease.jsp
I think it should be sufficiant. Right?


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