How High Blood Pressure Affects Your Kidneys | Dr. Prasun Ghosh | Medanta Gurugram

Añadido: 2026-05-20

[00:00:00]Hypertension in simple terms is elevated [music] blood pressure.

[00:00:05]120 mm of mercury by 80 mm of mercury is the normal pressures [music] we expect out of a healthy adult.

[00:00:13]Whenever the lower value is exceeding 80 to 85 or even more, it's classified as hypertension [music] generally.

[00:00:21]This elevated blood pressure simply means nothing in isolation.

[00:00:26]But sequentially if the blood pressure is continuously [music] high, that leads to problems arising because this pressure [music] is transmitted to the end organs to which the blood is supplied.

[00:00:40]To begin [music] with, many outcomes of hypertension like affecting the eye called as hypertensive retinopathy where you have retinal bleeds, where you have bleed in the bleedings in the eye, >> [music] >> you have heart related issues and hypertension.

[00:00:56]Kidneys [music] are affected because of their microvasculature and since I'm a urologist, I [music] would like to focus on this area that hypertension leads to a direct kidney damage. This is an independent risk factor for kidney disease.

[00:01:12]Usually presents [music] with presence of proteins in urine.

[00:01:15]So, these are very small things which [music] you may not initially decipher, but once you have the reports, you can please refer to the consultant or to [music] the medical practitioner to decipher the outcomes of these reports.

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