What is diabetes nephropathy? Diabetes nephropathy is one of the most important complications of diabetes patients. For pregnant women, timely prevention and treatment of diabetes is as important as diabetes nephropathy. After all, delaying diabetes nephropathy is of great significance. So, what are the stages of diabetes nephropathy?
Explain: The severity of diabetes nephropathy is mainly divided according to the detection of urinary microalbumin, urinary protein and renal function.
Diabetes nephropathy is divided into five stages:
Phase I: characterized by increased glomerular filtration rate and increased kidney volume. This initial lesion is consistent with high blood sugar levels, but reversible and can be recovered through treatment, but not necessarily completely restored to normal.
Stage II: The urinary albumin exclusion rate is normal during this stage, but structural changes have occurred in the glomeruli.
Stage III: also called early diabetes nephropathy. The exclusion rate of urinary albumin is 20-200 micrograms per minute, and the patient's blood pressure is slightly elevated, leading to the onset of glomerular atrophy.
Phase IV: This phase is called clinical diabetes nephropathy or dominant diabetes nephropathy. The characteristics of this period are a large amount of albuminuria, edema, and hypertension.
Stage V: End stage, during which patients experience renal failure. Once the patients with diabetes develop to this stage, due to the extensive thickening of the glomerular basement membrane, the glomerular capillary lumen will proceed.
In addition, the incidence rate in China is also on the rise. At present, diabetes nephropathy has become the second cause of end-stage renal disease, second only to various glomerular nephropathy. And it has complex metabolic disorders, so once it develops into end-stage kidney disease, it is often more difficult to treat than other kidney diseases, indicating the importance of prevention.
