The latest ideas on the involvement of metabolic disorders in cardio-renal interrelation

Abstract

This review article contains the latest ideas on the involvement of metabolic disorders in cardio- renal interrelation, the modern concept of a cardio-renal syndrome and its risk factors. Review of well-known and little-known elements and links of the pathogenesis of renal and cardiovascular diseases. Special attention is given to such risk factors as obesity, dyslipidemia, hypertension, microalbuminuria among patients with chronic kidney and heart diseases. Determining early and reliable predictors of the cardio-renal syndrome among metabolic disorders are extremely important due to an intensive growth of a number of patients with this kind of disorders.