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Your kidneys are the important organs that perform many functions to keep your blood clean and chemically balanced.

They play an important role in keeping your blood pressure in a healthy range, and blood pressure in turn can affect your kidneys’ health.

High blood pressure can damage your kidneys.

How High blood pressure can damage your kidneys?

Your heart works harder with high blood pressure and it can damage blood vessels throughout your body. Removal of wastes and extra fluids from your body will be stopped when blood vessels in your kidneys are damaged.

Extra fluid which is not removed from blood vessels can raise the blood pressure more. Hypertension is a leading cause of kidney problem, also called as end stage renal disease (ESRD). When your kidney fails, kidney transplant or dialysis is needed.

High blood pressure or hypertension can permanently damage tiny blood vessels in the nephrons of the kidneys. The damage keeps your kidneys from working as well as they should over time. If blood pressure is high, the damage becomes worse and functions of the kidney will continue to drop.

Damaged kidneys increase the level of blood pressure. If your kidneys are healthy, they can control your blood pressure.

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As many as 50 percent of overweight men and women with high blood pressure may have hypertension as a result of being overweight, researchers reported today at the American Heart Association’s 61st Annual Fall Conference of the Council for High Blood Pressure Research.Researchers in Italy found that about 50 percent of overweight, hypertensive adults, ranging in age from 29 to 65 years, achieved normal body weight and blood pressure after six months of treatment with a reduced-calorie diet.

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Over weight adults have high blood pressure than normal weight people. With high blood pressure and obesity, cardiovascular risk increases by increasing LDL cholesterol. According to the research, obesity increased cardiac output and blood volume and arterial resistance.

Obesity leads to high secretion of insulin in trying to reduce the concentration of excess sugar in blood. The secretion of this insulin is high compared to non-obese people. The insulin secreted by pancreas is responsible for many modifications in your body [Gastric bypass surgery to reduce obesity].

The secreted insulin leads to thickening of vessels which is responsible for increase in rigidity, thus increasing your hypertension. Because of the increase in secretion of adrenalin, cardiac output is increased.

Caffeine is a natural stimulant found in berries, nuts and leaves of plants. Caffeine is found mostly in tea or coffee products. Caffeine increases the central nervous system activity, which makes you feel awakened, alert and focused. Due to the increased activity of central nervous system, blood vessels constrict and increase blood pressure, which alter the supply of blood to the heart.

As caffeine is a stimulant, high blood pressure can be suspected. Long term caffeine intake is associated with increased blood pressure in adolescents that increases the risk of hypertension.

Even children and young kids are getting high blood pressure.

It is being diagnosed in more and more children.

Five percent children are suffering from high blood pressure, a condition in which blood vessels and heart overwork.

High blood pressure in children is caused due to many factors such as overweight, kidney problems, intake of salt and other illnesses.

The levels of hypertension will be different for children compared to adults.

Adult hypertension levels will be standard where as kid’s blood pressure readings are measured according to gender, age and height.

Whole grains are good sources of fiber and other important nutrients such as potassium, magnesium and selenium. Whole grains include germ, bran and endosperm which contain valuable nutrients. Germ is a part from which a new plant sprouts and is a concentrated source of thiamin, niacin, riboflavin, magnesium, phosphorus, vitamin E, zinc and iron. The germ also contains protein and fat.

Bran forms the outer layer of seed and is a rich source of thiamin, niacin, magnesium, riboflavin, iron, zinc and phosphorus. The endosperm is also called as kernel, make up the bulk of the seed. Endosperm contains most of grain’s protein and carbohydrates and little amount of minerals and vitamins.

There are various types of disorders that your body can be affected if you have deficiency in proteins, calcium, minerals, iron etc.

Anemia is a disease that is caused due to the lack of red blood cells (RBC) in your body. The liquid made with various cell types is known as blood.

Deficiency of iron, hemoglobin percentage or RBC in the blood leads to anemia.

Red blood cells are the main cells that deliver oxygen to the whole body. If you are suffering with anemia you will have the low blood count and you will be named as anemic.

Anemia can occur due to the loss of red blood cells as production of RBC is slower than it is required and your body can be destroying RBC.

Iron deficiency anemia is the most important anemia that will be seen in the teens. This will occur due to the lack of iron in your blood. This anemia will be mostly seen in teens. Iron deficiency will be caused when the percentage of iron in your body is reduced.

This is the first step that leads to anemia. The continuous iron deficiency will slow down the production of hemoglobin in your body and leads to anemia.