can someone please clarify this paragraph?"Chronic kidney disease patient depression numbers may be higher due to the presence of the same simultaneously occurring conditions that resulted in progressive kidney disease, such as diabetes and atherosclerotic vascular disease," Dr. Hedayati said. "Alternatively, patients such as diabetics, who are depressed, may develop progressive kidney disease because of non-adherence to medications and physicians' advice.
Posted by jq
Kidney disease patients seem to have higher occurrence of depression. That might be because of things that produced the kidney disease in the first place, such as diabetes or atherosclerotic vascular disease (I believe that's hardening of the arteries).
Or, it may be that people with diabetes and other things that lead to kidney disease, it may be that these people didn't take their meds or follow doctors' advice, which would lead to their being more depressed.
Orignal From: can someone please clarify this paragraph?
No comments:
Post a Comment