Prevention of End-Stage Renal Disease Due to Type 2 Diabetes

The prevalence of end-stage renal disease is increasing at an alarming rate. In 2000, chronic kidney failure developed in over 90,000 people in the United States; the current population of patients on dialysis numbers about 300,000, and 80,000 patients are living with transplanted kidneys. Both the prevalence and the incidence of end-stage renal disease are approximately twice what they were 10 years ago.1 Indeed, in 2000, the number of patients...