Reducing kidney failure rate among patients with diabetic kidney disease

(University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine) Diabetic kidney disease, which affects between 20 to 40 percent of people with diabetes, can lead to end-stage kidney disease -- a life-threatening condition that requires either dialysis or kidney transplant. Now, as part of an effort to reduce the rate of patients with DKD who develop kidney failure, researchers at Penn Medicine are spearheading an industry-academic collaboration to better understand the development and progression of DKD and adv...