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Type 2 diabetes mellitus is the leading cause of end stage renal disease worldwide. Diabetic kidney disease, whose main clinical manifestations are albuminuria and decline of glomerular filtration rate, affects up to 40% of patients. Sodium Glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitors (SGLT2-is) and Glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1ras)...

The Associazione Medici Diabetologi (AMD) annals initiative is an ongoing observational survey promoted by AMD. It is based on a public network of about 700 Italian diabetes clinics, run by specialists who provide diagnostic confirmation and prevention and treatment of diabetes and its complications. Over the last few years, analysis of the AMD...

OBJECTIVES: Long-term visit-to-visit SBP variability (VVV) predicts cerebro-cardiovascular and renal events in patients with hypertension. Whether VVV predicts hypertension and/or chronic kidney disease is currently unknown. We assessed the role of VVV on the development of hypertension and changes in renal function in patients with type 2...