It causes infection of the kidney; wasting of the kidney cells; and damage to its tiny blood vessels. High blood pressure, or hypertension, occurs when the pressure of your blood against the walls of your blood vessels increases. If not controlled, high blood pressure can be a cause of chronickidney disease. In return, kidney scarring may cause high blood pressure.
Nelson County is in the Central Virginia region midway between Charlottesville and Lynchburg and is bounded by the James River on east and the Blue Ridge Mountains north and west.
Nelson was born September 29, 1942, in Miami, Florida, the only child of Nannie Merle (nÃ©e Nelson) and Clarence William Nelson. His ancestry includes Scottish, Irish, English, and Danish. His father died of a heart attack when Nelson was 14 and his mother of Lou Gehrig's disease (ALS) when he was 24.