title: Updated management of chronic kidney disease in patients with diabetes.
abstract: Chronic diseases, including chronic kidney disease (CKD), are the primary threat to global public health in the 21st century. Recently updated guidelines from the National Kidney Foundation's Kidney Disease Outcomes Quality Initiative provide patient care benchmarks that physician assistants can use when caring for patients with diabetes and CKD and developing clinical performance improvement plans.
authors.affiliation: Virginia McCoy Hass is an assistant clinical professor and nurse practitioner program director in the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing at the University of California at Davis. The author has disclosed no potential conflicts of interest, financial or otherwise.
authors.forename: Virginia McCoy
authors.initials: VM
authors.lastname: Hass
mesh_terms: D000419:Albuminuria / Q000188:drug therapy; D003920:Diabetes Mellitus / Q000628:therapy*; D003928:Diabetic Nephropathies / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy; D050171:Dyslipidemias / Q000188:drug therapy; D005919:Glomerular Filtration Rate; D006442:Glycated Hemoglobin / Q000378:metabolism; D006801:Humans; D006943:Hyperglycemia / Q000097:blood / Q000188:drug therapy; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D051436:Renal Insufficiency, Chronic / Q000628:therapy*
chemical_list: D006442:Glycated Hemoglobin; C517652:hemoglobin A1c protein, human