Diabetes and Kidney Disease
Diabetes mellitus, usually called diabetes, is a disease in which your body does not make enough insulin or cannot use normal amounts of insulin properly. Insulin is a hormone that regulates the amount of sugar in your blood. A high blood sugar ... [... more]
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Getting a Kidney-Pancreas Transplant
A simultaneous kidney-pancreas transplant (SKP) is an operation to place both a kidney and a pancreas - at the same time - into someone who has kidney failure related to type 1 diabetes. In many cases, both transplanted organs may come from the ... [... more]
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Ten Facts About Diabetes and Chronic Kidney Disease
Diabetes is the leading cause of kidney failure in the United States. Because a cure for diabetic kidney disease has not yet been found, treatment involves controlling the disorder and slowing its progression to kidney failure. Current research ... [... more]
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Microalbuminuria In Diabetic Kidney Disease
Kidney disease is one of the most serious complications of diabetes. After years of diabetes, the filtering units of the kidney (glomeruli) get scarred so that they cannot filter the blood efficiently. Eventually, the kidneys may fail completely ... [... more]
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Sources Facts and Statistics:
Diabetes is the sixth leading cause of death in the U.S. and the most common cause of kidney failure in adults.1 Hispanic Americans have a high rate of diabetes. This increases their chance of developing serious complications such as chronic ... [... more]
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