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Diagnosis: Diabetic Nephropathy
Diabetic nephropathy is the leading cause of chronic renal failure in the Western societies. It is also one of the most significant long-term complications in terms of morbidity and mortality for individual patients with diabetes.
Diabetic nephropathy rarely develops before 10 years' duration of the disease, however, approximately 3% of newly diagnosed non – insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM) patients have overt nephropathy. In patients with recent diagnosis of NIDDM, the real time evolution of the disease is unknown. Then, in patients with recently diagnosed NIDDM and proteinuria we must think about the possibility of renal involvement for the diabetes.
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