PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Vinall, Maria
ED  - Thomas, Merlin
TI  - Renal Disease and Diabetes
DP  - 2011 Dec 01
TA  - MD Conference Express
PG  - 27--28
VI  - 11
IP  - 11
4099  - http://mdc.sagepub.com/content/11/11/27.short
4100  - http://mdc.sagepub.com/content/11/11/27.full
AB  - As many as half of all diabetes patients also have some form of chronic kidney disease (CKD) [www.kidney.org]. A global population of diabetes patients of about 350 million means that there are approximately 150 to 200 million type 2 diabetes patients with CKD'a problem of immense proportions. The combination of diabetes and CKD is characteristic of a specific population of diabetics (eg, those that are older, overweight/obese, hypertensive).