Question

A health care provider for an obese male who has a history of diabetes and hypertension reports that the client's glomerular filtration rate (GFR) is 51 mL/min with elevated serum creatinine levels. Which statement by the health care provider will likely answer the client's question about the result?

Answer 1

Answer:

The best answer to the question: Which statement by the healthcare provider will likely answer the client´s question about the result, would be: that the patient´s diabetes and hypertension conditions are most probably the causes for the damage to the patient´s kidney, causing the decrease in production of urine, the main characteristic of chronic kidney disease.

Explanation:

Chronic kidney disease is a condition in which, due to different factors, the kdney becomes impaired to properly filter the blood to produce urine. Among the most common factors that can cause damage to the kidneys are hypertension and diabetes, and this damage can be ascertained not only with the measure of how much the kidneys are filtering, known as GFR (Glomerular filtration rate), which should normally be between 90 ml/min and 120 ml/min, but also the levels of creatinine in blood serum. In the case of this patient, he is already presenting the signs and symptoms of chronic kidney disease and the way to help him understand why, is by connecting his other two conditions: diabetes and hypertension, to the kidney condition by showing him that the two formers, cause the later.