Protecting Your Kidneys with Diabetes
How diabetes affects your kidneys, the tests to ask about, kidney-friendly food and life with kidney disease.
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How diabetes affects your kidneys, the tests to ask about, kidney-friendly food and life with kidney disease.
Your kidneys filter your blood all day, and diabetes can strain them slowly and quietly. This course explains how that happens, which kidney tests to ask about and what the stages of kidney disease mean.
You will also learn about kidney-friendly eating, how kidneys and medicines affect each other and how people live well with kidney disease.
What you will learn
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Dr. Shanto Arian is an internal medicine physician now specializing in clinical and aesthetic dermatology, with a parallel academic focus on epidemiology and public health. He holds an MBBS, MPH, MSc (UK), MRCP (UK), MRCPI (Ireland), Diploma in Dermatology (UK), and Diploma in Aesthetic Medicine (USA). Dr. Arian trained in internal medicine, including hospital work on hematology cases such as graft-versus-host disease, before moving toward dermatology. Skin is one of the earliest places diabetes shows itself, from acanthosis nigricans and diabetic dermopathy to slow foot wound healing, and that intersection is where his clinical and Diabic-review work meet. On Diabic, Dr. Arian medically reviews content on diabetes diagnosis, complications, dermatologic manifestations, and pharmacotherapy, ensuring every claim aligns with current ADA, NICE, and peer-reviewed literature.
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Chapter 1: Kidney Care: An Overview
- CDCRisk Factors for Chronic Kidney Disease (opens in a new tab)
- American Heart AssociationAmerican Heart Association: ADA joint statement, Diabetes complications and risks (opens in a new tab)
- National Kidney FoundationChronic Kidney Disease (CKD) (opens in a new tab)
- National Library of MedicineCREDENCE trial, PubMed article 30990260 (opens in a new tab)
- NIDDKDiabetic Kidney Disease (opens in a new tab)
Chapter 2: How Diabetes Affects the Kidneys
Chapter 3: Kidney Tests
Chapter 5: Kidney-Friendly Eating
Chapter 6: Medicines and the Kidneys
Chapter 7: Living with Kidney Disease
- National Kidney FoundationNational Kidney Foundation home page (opens in a new tab)
- Mayo ClinicEnd-stage kidney disease - Diagnosis and treatment (opens in a new tab)
- National Kidney FoundationWhat is Dialysis? (opens in a new tab)
- American Diabetes AssociationPubMed article 38078584 (opens in a new tab)
- NIDDKDiabetes and Foot Problems (opens in a new tab)
Further reading on Diabic
- Spotting Diabetes Kidney Problems Symptoms Early
- How Diabetes Affects the Kidney Over Time
- Diabetes with Kidney Disease: A Practical Guide
- Blood Pressure and Diabetes: Why Both Matter
- Blood Pressure Medication and Diabetes: A Practical Guide
- Best Diabetes Medication for Kidney Disease
- Diabetes with Chronic Kidney Disease: CKD Stages Explained
- Diabetes Kidney Disease Treatment Options Explained
- Kidney Friendly Diet for Diabetes: What to Eat
- Best Diet for High Blood Pressure and Diabetes
- Practical Guide
- Blood Pressure Medication and Diabetes: What to Ask