According to a recent study published in the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, there may be a connection between a person’s heart rate and the health of their kidneys.
Along with his team of researchers, Dr. Daniel Brotman of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine found that in patients with higher risk for kidney disease, there was a greater likelihood of having a high resting heart rate and low variability beat-to-beat.
The study, which included 13,241 American adults age 45 to 64, suggests that certain types of kidney disease may be indicated by autonomic nervous system that fails to function correctly. This system is responsible for regulating various involuntary functions of the body, including blood pressure, temperature and heart rate.
Brotman and his colleagues found that people with a high resting heart rate had twice as much risk of developing kidney disease later on in life. The researchers also found that people with a low beat-to-beat variability were 1.5 times as likely to develop kidney failure.
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