Diabetic Kidney Disease: Epidemiology, Risk Factors for Disease Progression and Cardiovascular Complications, Novel Diagnostics and Treatments
A special issue of Journal of Clinical Medicine (ISSN 2077-0383). This special issue belongs to the section "Nephrology & Urology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (5 December 2023) | Viewed by 23212
Special Issue Editors
Interests: chronic kidney disease; diabetic kidney disease; kidney transplantation; posttransplant diabetes; chronic rejection
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Diabetic kidney disease (DKD) is the leading cause of kidney failure worldwide, with a significant increase in risk for cardiovascular events, dialysis dependence and premature mortality. Given the increasing prevalence of type 2 DM, the global burden of DKD is expected to further increase in future. Thus, there is a strong socioeconomic and health imperative to improve outcomes for people with DKD.
Predicting the evolution of DKD remains difficult as its progression is highly variable. To prevent kidney failure and reduce mortality, understanding of epidemiology as well as early identification of risk factors for disease progression and cardiovascular complications is important. There is also a clear clinical need for novel noninvasive diagnostics to enhance our understanding of DKD pathophysiology, progression and risk stratification, and to assess efficacy and modes of action of new therapeutic interventions.
Since the introduction of angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors in the 1990s and angiotensin II receptor blockers (ARBs) in the early 2000s for the treatment of DKD, the advents of sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 (SGLT2) inhibitors and new mineralocorticoid receptor antagonists have been evolutionary additions to the therapeutic repertoire of DKD.
The scope of this Special Issue is to provide critical insights into the current knowledge of epidemiology, risk factors for disease progression and cardiovascular complications as well as novel diagnostics and treatments for DKD.
We cordially invite you to submit relevant papers for consideration for peer review and expeditious publication in this Special Issue of the Journal of Clinical Medicine. All original investigations as well as comprehensive reviews are welcome.
Dr. Seema Baid-Agrawal
Dr. Martin Busch
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- diabetic kidney disease
- diagnostics
- epidemiology
- risk factors
- progression
- cardiovascular events
- treatment
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