The nurse is assessing a client admitted with complaints related to chronic kidney dysfunction.The nurse recognizes that this client is most likely to present with which of the resulting symptoms?
A) Anemia
B) Hypotension
C) Diabetes mellitus
D) Clinical depression

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Clients with chronic alterations in kidney function cannot produce sufficient quantities of the hormone erythropoietin;therefore they are prone to anemia.Diabetes mellitus may be a cause of the renal dysfunction,and the client may or may not be depressed.Hypertension,not hypotension,is a typical outcome of kidney dysfunction.

The Nurse Is Assessing a Client Admitted with Complaints Related