Linking Kidney and Cardiovascular Complications in Diabetes—Impact on Prognostication and Treatment: The 2019 Edwin Bierman Award Lecture

What is it about?

Kidney and heart are closely linked, diabetes affects both, and lead to complications increasing mortality and morbidity. Treatment for kidney and heart complications in diabetes have evolved successfully in recent years, but for this to benefit subjects with diabetes, it is important that we can tailor therapy. This paper discuss how new markers in blood and urine, and organ function tests, can be used to guide therapy, to optimise benefit and reduce harm.

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