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DEFINITION
Diabetic nephropathy (kidney disease caused by diabetes) has been defined on clinical grounds as persistent proteinuria (protein excretion in the urine entire 500 milligrams a day, or excretion of albumin in the urine of 300 milligrams in a day) in the urine of patients with diabetes who also have diabetic retinopathy (eye disease in patients with diabetes) but have no other kidney.

BACKGROUND

Diabetes mellitus type 1 and type 2 national and global level has become the leading cause of end stage renal disease, that is due to:

1. The increase in the prevalence (number of patients) in type 2 diabetes especially.
2. Patients with diabetes are living longer.
3. Patients with chronic renal failure due to diabetes mellitus are being accepted into dialysis programs / hemodialysis and kidney transplantation of which were previously excluded.

In patients with diabetes mellitus type 1 with 20 years of evolution, 50% of them develop diabetic nephropathy, and patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus only 10 to 20%. However, the great difference in prevalence (most common type 2) causes the majority of patients with diabetic nephropathy is secondary to type 2 diabetes mellitus.

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