What are risk factors for chronic kidney disease?

What are some of the risk factors for chronic kidney disease? If you think the blood vessels in your kidney are the same size as the blood vessels in the back of your eye, so they are very delicate and as a result can be easily damaged. The common risk factors for chronic kidney disease are high blood pressure, diabetes, obesity, smoking, and then less common but recognised risk factors are, as I previously mentioned, ethnicity, with South Asian and Afro-Caribbean populations being more at risk than Caucasian populations. Obviously family history of chronic kidney disease, if there's a genetic condition in your family or the possibility that you inherit it. Older age, as people get older we know that kidney function deteriorates over time, that's a normal physiological thing that just happens. And of course if you're born with abnormal kidney structure as well.