Diabetes

Early, intensive therapy for type 1 diabetes prevented kidney disease in long-term study

Published in Clinical Trials Week, November 28th, 2011

2011 NOV 28 -- Maintaining good glucose control early in the course of type 1 diabetes could lessen the long-term risk of kidney disease, as measured by a common test of kidney function.

This finding comes from more than two decades of research on preventing life-shortening complications of type 1 diabetes. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) funded the longitudinal study. Results will be published online Nov. 12 in the New England Journal of Medicine and presented Nov. 12 at the American Society of Nephrology Kidney Week in Philadelphia.

Researchers at the University of Washington (UW) in Seattle and several collaborating...

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Source: Clinical Trials Week (2011-11-28)

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