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Diabetic Nephropathy
Nephrology · Urological
Severe
Severity
Common — a leading cause of kidney failure in India, reflecting the country's substantial diabetes burden
Prevalence
No
Contagious
Nephrology
Specialist
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🔬Causes & Risk Factors
- 1Caused by long-standing
- 2poorly controlled high blood sugar levels that progressively damage the small blood vessels within the kidney's filtering units over years. Coexisting high blood pressure significantly accelerates kidney damage in people with diabetes
- 3making blood pressure control equally important as blood sugar control. Longer duration of diabetes
- 4poor overall glucose control
- 5smoking
- 6and genetic predisposition further increase the risk of developing this complication.
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