New strategies to improve clinical outcomes for diabetic kidney disease.

First published in BMC Medicine on 2022 Oct.
BMC Med. 2022 Oct 10;20(1):337. doi: 10.1186/s12916-022-02539-2.

Authors: Forst T, Mathieu C, Giorgino F, Wheeler DC, Papanas N, Schmieder RE, Halabi A, Schnell O, Streckebein M, Tuttle KR

Abstract

Background

Diabetic kidney disease (DKD), the most common cause of kidney failure and end-stage kidney disease worldwide, will develop in almost half of all people with type 2 diabetes. With the incidence of type 2 diabetes continuing to increase, early detection and management of DKD is of great clinical importance.

Main body

This review provides a comprehensive clinical update for DKD in people with type 2 diabetes, with a special focus on new treatment modalities. The traditional strategies for prevention and treatment of DKD, i.e., glycemic control and blood pressure management, have only modest effects on minimizing glomerular filtration rate decline or progression to end-stage kidney disease. While cardiovascular outcome trials of SGLT-2i show a positive effect of SGLT-2i on several kidney disease-related endpoints, the effect of GLP-1 RA on kidney-disease endpoints other than reduced albuminuria remain to be established. Non-steroidal mineralocorticoid receptor antagonists also evoke cardiovascular and kidney protective effects.

Conclusion

With these new agents and the promise of additional agents under clinical development, clinicians will be more able to personalize treatment of DKD in patients with type 2 diabetes.

Read more

Download full article as Pdf file:

Pdf File

 

REACHING OUT IS EASY AND FAST – LET’S TALK

Martin Mulder

Senior Vice President Corporate & Business Development


LET’S TALK BUSINESS