Diabetic nephropathy is the leading cause of kidney disease in patients starting renal replacement therapy and affects ~40% of type 1 and type 2 diabetic patients. It increases the risk of death ...

Scientist develop new equation for detecting hyperfiltration that incorporates age but not body surface area. Read more!

In their classification system, Tervaert et al. 1 divide diabetic nephropathy into four classes based on the presence of what they consider to be increasingly serious glomerular lesions ().The ...

A decreased GFR indicates reduced kidney function and may suggest the presence of diabetic kidney disease. Kidney imaging: ...