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High Blood Pressure Takes Big Toll On Small Filtering Units Of The Kidney

Posted on September 19, 2008

September 19, 2008 (EurekAlert) - Take a kidney out of the body and it still knows how to filter toxins from the blood.But all bets are off in the face of high blood pressure. How does the kidney know how to do it and why does it break in hypertension? says Dr. Edward W. Inscho, physiologist in the Medical College of Georgia Schools of Medicine and Graduate Studies. The kidneys filter about 200 quarts of plasma daily, eliminating about two quarts of waste product and extra water as urine, according to the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases. But the complet...

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