Young people with type-2 diabetes at increased risk of kidney disease

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Young people diagnosed with type-2 diabetes have a steadily increasing risk of complications like diabetic kidney disease as they approach adulthood, according to international researchers, who say that most experience complications by the time they reach their mid-twenties. Complications were most common in people from minority racial and ethnic groups, and in those with high blood glucose, high blood pressure, and high cholesterol.

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conference: NEJM

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Organisation/s: George Washington University, USA

Funder: Funded by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases and others; ClinicalTrials.gov numbers, NCT01364350 and NCT02310724. See paper for full funding.

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