This meta-analysis found that the presence of chronic kidney disease strongly predicted mortality risk in patients with type 2 diabetes. Chronic kidney disease more than doubles mortality risk in patients with type 2 diabetes, researchers found. In an analysis of nearly two dozen randomized controlled trials involving diabetic patients, the highest mortality rates were observed in those trials that required the inclusion of patients with renal disease, according to Marc Pfeffer, MD, PhD, of Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, and colleagues. Trials that selected for patients with elevated serum creatinine or impaired estimated glomerular filtration rate eGFR had mortality rates of 5.9 to 8.2 per 100 patient-years, whereas the rest of the trials had rates no higher than 3.3, the researchers reported online in the Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease.

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