title: Diabetes and renal failure: a southern Italian perspective.
abstract: The authors carried out a retrospective survey assessing the total proportion of diabetic patients and relative proportion of patients with Type I and Type II diabetes among patients receiving renal replacement therapy and those evaluated for chronic renal failure in a southern Italian renal unit during the period 1972-1986. The proportion of diabetics among patients accepted for renal replacement therapy was 10% (34/336); of the 34 diabetic patients, only one was clearly affected by Type I diabetes, 26 had Type II diabetes, and the classification was uncertain in four patients. Similar relative proportions of Types I and II diabetes were observed among patients referred during the same period for evaluation of chronic renal failure.
authors.affiliation: Centro di Fisiologia Clinica del Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche e Divisione Nefrologica, Reggio Calabria, Italy.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Catalano
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Cuzzola
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Enia
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Postorino
authors.forename: Q
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Maggiore
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D003928:Diabetic Nephropathies / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D007558:Italy; D007676:Kidney Failure, Chronic / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000628:therapy; D012189:Retrospective Studies