Article
Chronic Kidney Disease in the Elderly Patient with Diabetes
2023-10-09
Abstract excerpt
Diabetes mellitus (DM) and chronic kidney disease (CKD) are common in middle aged and elderly individuals. DM may accelerate the aging process, and the age-related declines in the estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate (eGFR), can pose a challenge to diagnose diabetic kidney disease (DKD) using standard diagnostic criteria especially with absence of severe albuminuria among the elderly. In the presence of CKD and DM...
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- Literature Corpus work
- c563ad07-1398-525e-a955-3ebd262624dd
- DOI
- 10.20944/preprints202310.0551.v1
