Diabetic Nephropathy

Diabetic nephropathy is a tragic illness. Its often insidious onset in the insulin­ dependent (type I) diabetic, typically a young adult, heralds the last act in the course of a disease that will increasingly become the dominant preoccupation in the patient''s shortened life. For most type II diabetics, the beginning of clinical renal insufficiency is but a phase in a continuous deterioration that...