Researchers suggest that ingesting a drink rich in cocoa flavanols improved blood vessel function and reduced diastolic blood pressure in patients with kidney failure. This might help in reducing cardiovascular risk in patients with chronic kidney dysfunction. Impairment of kidney function leads to building up of toxic waste products and fluid in the body causing different illness and damaging other organs.
The heart is most likely to be affected in case of a chronic kidney disease. If the heart ceases to function efficiently, it becomes overloaded with blood, pressure builds up, and there will be congestion of blood in the kidneys and a reduction in oxygenated blood there causing further impairment of the kidney function. Conversely, damage to the kidneys can cause the hormone system that regulates blood pressure to go into overdrive in order to increase blood supply to the kidneys.…
