Smoking and the Risk of Renal Failure

Patients with high blood pressure (I mean primary high blood pressure) have no protein in urine when they have no kidney damages. However, if people with high blood pressure smoking, proteinuria may occur frequently. The fact indicates that smoking impairs filtration function of kidneys. Although there are plenty of other factors damaging one’s kidneys, smoking is liable for most of the kidney damages.
According to the September 2011 Issue of Renal and Urology News, among those individuals who are younger than 70 years old, those current smoker along with former smoker are at 3.3 and 4.0 times high risk for developing Renal Failure compared with those who never smoked before. Scary isn’t it?
Even those who have already quit smoking are still at a high risk of Renal Failure than those who never smoked. Good news is that the risk of Renal Failure will diminish with time since one quit smoking.
"The findings came to light from a study of 65,589 individuals who participated in the HUNT II study, a Norwegian general health survey. During a median follow-up of 10.3 years, 124 subjects progressed to stage 5 chronic kidney disease.", quote from the report.
As is well-known, smoking is extremely harmful to one’s health, whereas it has become a popular trend especially among men. People with CKD should now be strongly encouraged to quit smoking. After reading the article if you are still smoking, I do suggest you to take a second thought. Smoking has no good to your healthy, whatever you are healthy or have already developed Renal Failure, you should definitely stay away from it.