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.
Danny Glover (the year of his first Lethal Weapon movie) played Nelson, and Alfre Woodard (seen this year in 12 Years a Slave) was Winnie, in a script written by the South Africa-born Ronald Harwood (Quartet) and directed by BBC veteran Philip Saville.