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Type 1 Diabetes Patients Need New Kidney Therapies: Study


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Recent advances not enough in preventing end-stage disease, researchers say.

 

THURSDAY, Feb. 24 (HealthDay News) -- Despite major advances in kidney care over the last two decades, type 1 diabetes patients with kidney dysfunction still have high rates of kidney failure and heart-related death, researchers have found.

 

The findings show that more effective treatments are needed for these patients, according to the authors of the new study.

 

One-third of type 1 diabetes patients develop macroalbuminuria, a condition where...

 

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