Facing the Future: New Perspectives in Diabetes and Kidney Disease

Dear Colleagues,

Diabetes mellitus is a growing disease worldwide. Diabetic kidney disease (DKD) is one of the most important complications of diabetes and the main cause of end-stage renal disease. DKD leads to an increase in the morbimortality of these patients mainly related to cardiovascular origin. Recently, a common microvascular mechanism for renal and cardiac damage has been recently proposed. This common pathway would be the same for all the other target organs and could explain the pathogenic processes behind the strong association between diabetic renal disease and cardiovascular disease. As mentioned, similar phenomena occur with other organs involved, such as the brain or the gastrointestinal tract. Hence, the importance of understanding kidney disease in diabetes from a new perspective and the challenge of new diagnostic and therapeutic tools to prevent the progression of kidney and heart dysfunction in diabetes.

Dr. José María Mora-Gutierrez
Dr. María José Soler
Dr. Nuria Garcia-Fernandez
Dr. Clara García-Carro
Guest Editors

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