How Chronic Kidney Disease Ruins Unrelated Organs

CKD (chronic kidney disease) doesn’t just ruin your kidney function. It has destructive effects far beyond that.

A new study published in the journal Scientific Reports reveals one of the most shocking non-kidney effects of CKD.

It ruins an organ that you’d never even associate with CKD.

Open-angle glaucoma (OAG) is a common cause of irreversible blindness. It is usually caused by high pressure inside the eye due to the build-up of fluids, although researchers have increasingly started linking it to other diseases.

As a result, a team of Korean researchers settled on OAG as a good research topic and mined the National Health Insurance Service-National Sample Cohort 2002–2015 for information on 1.1 million Korean adults.

Among these adults, 1,318 were diagnosed with CKD between 2003 and 2008, and each was matched on demographic data with five people from the population without CKD.

The researchers followed these participants for a few years to see whether the CKD patients were more likely than their peers to develop OAG.

This is what they found:

1. CKD was strongly associated with OAG, increasing patients’ risk of OAG by 55%.

2. Mild-to-moderate CKD (stages 1-3) increased the risk of OAG by 28%.

3. Advanced CKD (stages 4-5) increased the risk by 86%.

4. Women with CKD were more likely to develop OAG than men were.

5. CKD patients over the age of 39 were more likely than younger people to develop OAG.

This shows that CKD is a major risk factor for OAG and that this risk is especially strong with severe CKD cases.

This is yet another reason to get serious about tackling your CKD. Fortunately, thousands of readers are successfully managing and even reversing their CKD, using the natural and simple steps explained here…