Year: 2021
Type: article
Abstract: This compendium provides an important and timely update for clinicians, reviewing many important considerations for improving clinical outcomes in patients with type 2 diabetes and chronic kidney disease (CKD). It is important to remember that, from an epidemiological standpoint, people with type 2 diabetes and CKD are much more likely to suffer from cardiovascular events than they are to reach end-stage renal disease. In fact, they are five times as likely to succumb from cardiovascular disease than to require renal replacement therapy. With improved opportunities to identify patients earlier in their course of disease and those with increased risk factors for progression, we may be in a better position than ever to implement primary rather than only secondary prevention strategies.
Source: ADA Clinical Compendia
DOI: 10.2337/db20211-33
Author: Matthew Weir
Institution: University of Maryland, Baltimore
Language: English
Subfield: Nephrology
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4296608865