Title:Effects of Hypertension, Diabetes Mellitus, Obesity and Other Factors on Kidney Haemodynamics
Volume: 12
Issue: 3
Author(s): Costas Tsioufis, Iraklis Tatsis, Costas Thomopoulos, Cristopher Wilcox, Fredrik Palm, Athanasios Kordalis, Niki Katsiki, Vasilios Papademetriou and Christodoulos Stefanadis
Affiliation:
Keywords:
Diabetes, dyslipidaemia, hypertension, renal blood flow, renal flow reserve, renal haemodynamics, renal failure,
smoking.
Abstract: Introduction: Kidney flow assessment and its haemodynamic surrogates, namely resistive index and renal flow
reserve, may improve our understanding of the natural history of kidney dysfunction.
Methods: We reviewed the literature on the common and differential effects of traditional risk factors such as essential
hypertension, diabetes mellitus, dyslipidaemia, smoking, obesity and metabolic syndrome on human kidney haemodynamics.
Results and conclusions: Aging, duration of a prevalent single cardiovascular risk factor and co-existence of multiple risk
factors may further accelerate the deterioration of kidney haemodynamics. Sympathetic and renin-angiotensin-aldosterone
axis activation is implicated in the pathophysiology leading to kidney function decline. Prevention of kidney disease progression
includes the blockade of the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone axis, lipid lowering drugs, smoking cessation and glycaemic
control as well as novel interventional methods like transluminal kidney sympathetic denervation.
