Open AccessDiabetic Kidney Disease and Hypertension: A True Love Story
Author(s) -
A.K. Verma,
Sony Vyas,
Abhishek Agarwal,
Shahid Abbas,
Devi Prasad Agarwal,
Ravindra Kumar
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
journal of clinical and diagnostic research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2249-782X
pISSN - 0973-709X
DOI - 10.7860/jcdr/2016/18806.7511
Subject(s) - medicine , diabetic nephropathy , albuminuria , diabetes mellitus , hypertensive nephropathy , proteinuria , renal function , type 2 diabetes mellitus , kidney disease , nephropathy , disease , type 2 diabetes , kidney , endocrinology
Diabetes Mellitus (DM) remains one of the commonest causes of structural and functional kidney abnormalities leading to End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD). The next most common cause is hypertension. It is utmost important to investigate the association between diabetic nephropathy and hypertension because it is a major causal factor of end-stage kidney failure in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM).