Renal Diseases in Diabetes

Daphne H. Knicely, M.D.

DEFINITION

Renal disease in diabetes may be caused by diabetes, or may be from other etiologies coexisting with diabetes.
In diabetes, persistent proteinuria, without other cause, is the first sign of diabetic kidney disease (DKD).

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