Nephropathy in Diabetes

Abstract
Patients with diabetes mellitus affected by kidney damage have an excessively increased cardiovascular risk. This requires an early diagnosis, a consistent and goal-oriented therapy of diabetes mellitus, arterial blood pressure and all concomitant diseases and an early, close and patient-centered cooperation between family doctor, diabetologist and nephrologist. Publication Date: 04 January 2021 (online) © 2020. Thieme. All rights reserved. Georg Thieme Verlag KG Rüdigerstraße 14, 70469 Stuttgart, Germany