The Characteristics of Diabetic Nephropathy

Diabetic nephropathy is a major microvascular complications of diabetes, mainly referring to diabetic glomerulosclerosis, clinical features of proteinuria, progressive renal dysfunction, hypertension, edema.

1. proteinuria early diabetic nephropathy no clinical proteinuria, only by radioimmunoassay method can detect microalbuminuria. The only early clinical manifestations of diabetic nephropathy proteinuria, proteinuria gradually developed from intermittent to continuous.

2. The prevalence of hypertension than normal blood pressure does not increase in type 1 diabetic patients without kidney disease, type 2 diabetes and hypertension are more, but if the proportion rises hypertension proteinuria in kidney disease When syndrome patients with hypertension, this mostly moderate hypertension, a few severe.

3. Early clinical diabetic nephropathy edema generally do not have edema, a small number of patients before lowering plasma protein, may have mild edema. If a large number of proteinuria, low plasma protein, edema, progression to late manifestations of.


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