In 2003, the International Society of Nephrology and the International Diabetes Federation launched a campaign to highlight the global pandemic of type 2 diabetes and diabetic kidney disease. It aimed to alert governments, health organizations, health-care providers, doctors, and patients to the increasing health and socioeconomic problems associated with diabetic kidney disease and its sequelae, end-stage renal disease. Today, 7 years later, the same message is even more urgent.
- Robert C. Atkins
- Paul Zimmet