%0 Journal Article
%T The renal resistive index as a new complementary tool to predict microvascular diabetic complications in children and adolescents: a groundbreaking finding
%A Abeer Ahmed Abdel Maksoud
%A Amit Nanda
%A Rami N. Khouzam
%A Sherine Mohamed Sharara
%J SCIE-indexed Journal
%D 2019
%R 10.21037/atm.2019.08.65
%X Diabetes is the third most common chronic condition in childhood and poor glycemic control leads to serious short-term and life-limiting long-term complications (1). Diabetes is a strong risk factor for arteriosclerosis, which is systemic in nature and may affect arteries of different sizes (2). Diabetic nephropathy, which is micro-vascular in nature, is widely considered an important complication of diabetes (3). It is the leading cause of kidney disease in patients starting renal replacement therapy and affects nearly 40% of type 1 diabetes, particularly those with marked proteinuria (4)
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