Diabetes and renal failure: a southern Italian perspective.
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.
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Centro di Fisiologia Clinica del Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche e Divisione Nefrologica, Reggio Calabria, Italy.
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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