Healthy Living: Blogs Story Updated: Jan 28, 2013 When you're
diabetic, your blood sugar levels are too high. Over time, that
can damage your kidneys, leaving them unable to rid your blood
of toxins like they're supposed to. Now new research suggests
that once kidney disease develops in diabetics, the risk of
dying increases significantly.The study, just published in the
Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, is huge
news....since one in every 10 Americans has diabetes...and a
third or more may develop kidney disease because of it.
Researchers at the University of Washington examined 10-year
mortality rates in more than 15-thousand American adults. Kidney
disease was found in more than 42-percent of those with Type 2
diabetes versus just 9-and-a half percent of those without the
condition. And when the numbers were reviewed even closer,
patients with both diabetes and kidney disease faced a
31-percent risk of premature death. The higher mortality rate
linked to diabetic kidney disease surprised the re