Link between male diabetics with allergies and kidney disease - nothing to sneeze at

Friday, October 2, 2009 - 07:21 in Health & Medicine

For men with type 2 diabetes, a cell type linked to allergic inflammation is closely linked to a key indicator of diabetic kidney disease (nephropathy), suggests a study in the November Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (CJASN). 'Allergy is a common disease that is increasing worldwide, so our findings may have important implications for diabetic nephropathy,' comments Michiaki Fukui, MD (Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Japan)...

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