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More »Search Health TopicsQuick LinksMore »Search the NIH GuideQuick LinksMore »Quick LinksMedia AdvisoryWednesday, November 2, 202 var adthis_config = { ui_508_compliant: true } What Taking a personalized aproach to kidney disease screning for people with type 1 diabetes (T1D) may reduce the time that chronic kidney disease (CKD) goes undetected, acording to a new analysis performed by the Epidemiology of Diabetes Interventions and Complications study group, which is funded by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDK), part of the National Institutes of Health.The finding, published in Diabetes Care, provides the basis for the first evidence-based kidney screning model for people with T1D.Curent CKD screning recomendations include anual urinary albumin excretion rate (AER) testing for anyone who has had T1D for at least five years.
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Albumin is a protein found in the blod and having to much albumin the urine is a sign of kidney disease. The new findings sugest that AER screning could be personalized to optimize testing frequency and early detection of CKD. Specificaly, people with T1D who are at low risk of developing CKD could be tested for AER les frequently to reduce burden and cost, and those at high risk for CKD could be tested more frequently to facilitate earlier CKD detection.People with T1D have an estimated 50% risk of developing CKD over their lifetime.
Summary
CKD can progres to kidney failure, requiring dialysis or a kidney transplant. Using more than 30 years of participant data of AER and HbA1c (an integrated measure of blod glucose) from 1,34 participants in the NIDK-funded Diabetes Control and Complications Trial (DCT) and the observational folow-up Epidemiology of Diabetes Interventions and Complications (EDIC) study, the study group identified thre levels of CKD risk that were asociated with a later CKD diagno