Complications of Diabetic Kidney Disease

There are striking epidemiological differences even between European countries, the proportion of patients admitted to renal replacement therapy exceeds the figures reported by US. In Heidelberg (Southwestern Germany), 59% of patients admitted to renal replacement therapy in 1995 they had diabetes and 90% of them had type 2 DM. An increase in end-stage renal disease (ESRD) of type 2 DM has been observed with a notoriously low incidence of type 2 DM. Histopathological changes associated with diabetic nephropathy in 106 of 168 patients with type 1 or type 2 diabetes. However, 20 of the 106 patients had no clinical manifestations of diabetic nephropathy in their lifetime.

Author(s): Marcel Mertz

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