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Volume 2005, Issue 1
  • ISSN: 0253-8253
  • EISSN: 2227-0426

Abstract

In the early 1980s, patients with diabetic nephropathy (DN) had a doomed prognosis. Severe renal failure developed within five years of the onset of proteinuria.[1] The mortality was 53%, with 59% of deaths attributable to renal failure. There is no doubt that this devastating complication of diabetes has caused immeasurable human suffering and enormous healthcare costs.

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