Diabetes Causes Kidney Failure in America

       With the changing of diet and living habit in modern society, there are more and more people diagnosed with diabetes. As we all know, American food contains so much sugar and fat such as sweet tomato, which makes high sugar in blood, thus causing diabetes. What’s more, diabetes for a long time can lead to kidney disease which is called diabetic nephropathy and even kidney failure.

       Diabetes can make the walls of micro-blood vessels become fragile and tough. Gradually, the wall of micro-blood vessels become narrow and blocked. In the early stage, when blood flows through renal glomeruli, a large amount of nutritious substances will leak out such as albumin. Albumin is the important materials which can maintain the human body’s life. In normal condition, albumin can not leak out. When diabetes develops into diabetic nephropathy, albumin will leak out. With patient’ condition becoming more and more serious, there will be other kinds of molecules leaking out such as protein, red blood cells, white blood cells. In the end stage, with more and more renal glomeruli are damaged, kidney failure will take place. 

  So controlling diabetes and preventing kidney problem become an urgent thing.

In America, diabetes has become the seven dominant disease which threatens people’s life. It is becoming increasingly serious. At present, there are 16 million people who develop into diabetes every year. What’s more, these contain more and more younger people.

How to control diabetes? Experts in one of diabetes education center of America says that taking exercise, keeping a diet and treatment are all important. Among them, taking exercise ranks first. He points out that loosing weight is initial. At the same time, exercising can make the sugar in the blood into muscles cells. As for the diet, they should take in low sugar food. Besides these, effective treatment is also essential. Stem cells are suggested regarding the treatment of diabetes.

How does stem cell treat diabetes? The mechanism goes as follows: pancreas islet β cells are damaged, which leads to insufficient secretion of insulin. In this case, the blood sugar will increase. If this can not be treated or controlled well, it will lead to systematic disorder and a series of complications will occur as well. Stem cells can repair the damaged pancreas islet β cells, thus recovering the function of insulin. In this case, the secretion of insulin can turn normal and diabetes can recover consequently.