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 County was created in 1807 from Amherst County. The government was formed the following year. The county is named for Thomas Nelson, Jr., a signer of the U.S. Declaration of Independence, who served as Governor of Virginia in 1781. An earlier Virginia county, also named in his honor, became part of Kentucky when it separated from Virginia in 1792.