Abstract :
In 2003, the International Society of Nephrology and the International Diabetes Federation launched a booklet called Diabetes in the Kidney: Time to act [1] to highlight the global pandemic of type 2 diabetes and diabetic kidney disease. It aimed to alert governments, health organizations, providers, doctors, and patients to the increasing health and socio-economic problems due to diabetic kidney disease and its sequelae, end-stage kidney disease requiring dialysis, and cardiovascular death. Seven years later, the same message has become even more urgent.
