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Your kidneys use filters made of tiny blood vessels to remove waste and excess water from your body.

Diabetes injures the small blood vessels in your kidneys so that they can’t clean as well as they should.

Your body retains more water, waste and salt than it should, causing weight gain and ankle swelling.

Nerve damage may keep your bladder from emptying properly. Urine can back up and injure your kidneys. Your kidneys slowly begin failing.