Smoking Does Raise the Risk of Kidney Failure

More and more studies have shown that smoking raises the risk for developing Kidney Failure.
Take this for example, patients with high blood pressure have no urine protein when they have no kidney damages. However, if they smoking, proteinuria may occur frequently. Smoking impairs filtration function of kidneys.
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 Kidney Failure compared with those who never smoked before.
Even those who have already quit smoking are still at a high risk of Kidney Failure than those who never smoked. Good news is that the risk of Kidney 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 Kidney Failure, you should definitely stay away from it.