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Hyd youth seen falling prey to kidney diseases
Increasing number of youth falling prey to kidney failures is causing concern among doctors. Though there has been sudden increase in kidney failures all over the world, particularly in developing countries like India, the youth getting afflicted by the disease in increasing numbers in Hyderabad should be a wake-up call for the government, it is felt.
A wake-up call for the government
Hyderabad: Increasing number of youth falling prey to kidney failures is causing concern among doctors. Though there has been sudden increase in kidney failures all over the world, particularly in developing countries like India, the youth getting afflicted by the disease in increasing numbers in Hyderabad should be a wake-up call for the government, it is felt.
At least 70 per cent of patients of kidney disease are in the age group of 20-40, according to the Head of the Department of Nephrology, Nizam Institute of Medical Sciences, Dr D Sree Bhushan Raju. Another 20 to 30 per cent patients were affected due to acquired conditions and some of them genetic conditions like polycystic kidney disease.
Explaining the background to the sudden explosion of kidney failures, Dr Raju said youth in the age group of 20-40 too were diagnosed with suffering from hypertension, which is called “high BP” in common man’s parlance. Those, affected by the hypertension, would generally feel that they were affected it because of stress. But there was no relation between tension and hypertension, Dr Raju explained.
The delay in diagnosing the hypertension and failure on the part of patients to take medication was also the cause for damage of kidneys between 30 and 40 per cent. Patients with hypertension would visit doctor very late and it would result in detecting it. Dr Raju, while cautioning the youth to be careful, said now there was no need for panic over the kidney disease.
Wonderful treatment for the disease in the form of dialysis and also transplantation were available. But, unfortunately most of the patients, succumb to disease before they visit the doctor. He urged people to visit doctor as soon as disease has manifested itself.
By:V Naveen Kumar
