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This is what PCP’s should be following in the US

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This is a link to the American Diabetes Association’s 2024 Standards of Care for risk management of CKD. So if you have diabetes either type 1 or 2 your doctor should be following these guidelines. If not then show them this!

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Totally agree and I would take it even further that everyone over 21 or maybe 40, at an annual do a renal panel.

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Agree

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Agree

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Yes it would have saved me from getting CKD

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Me too and how many others!!!

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