Doctors At UVA Health System Search For New Treatments For Diabetic Kidney Disease

... Kidney disease is a life-threatening complication of diabetes - a disease marked by high levels of glucose in the blood because of defects in the way the body makes or uses insulin. For instance, in 2002, nearly 154,000 diabetic patients reached end-stage renal disease (ESRD) and were living on chronic dialysis or with a kidney transplant, according to the American Diabetes Association... click link for more info. ...