Renal Failure Treatment: How Prescription Drugs are Used

Renal Failure Treatment: How Prescription Drugs are Used High blood pressure drugs have shown that they may be promising in renal failure treatment. This is because the kidneys play an important part of maintaining a healthy blood pressure, and healthy... More

Renal Failure Treatment: How Prescription Drugs are Used
High blood pressure drugs have shown that they may be promising in renal failure treatment.

This is because the kidneys play an important part of maintaining a healthy blood pressure, and
healthy blood pressure contributes to healthy kidneys.
High blood pressure puts extra strain on
the kidney because the heart has to work harder and blood vessels can be damaged by this.
If
the blood vessels in the kidneys are damaged, their ability to cleanse the blood also becomes
impaired.
This means that high blood pressure is one of the leading causes of kidney disease.

For these reasons, medicine to regulate blood pressure is now a common kidney medication
used in treating renal failure.
Most of the prescription drugs that are used for blood pressure
control are diuretics, calcium blockers, beta blockers, angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE)
inhibitors and angiotensin receptor blockers (ARB).
Of these drugs, ARB’s and ACE’s have
been Less