Type 1 diabetes patients who develop the most advanced form of kidney disease - end-stage renal disease (ESRD) - can die (have poor outlook).Such were the confirmation by a new study that examined the epidemiology and long-term survival of patients with ESRD by diabetic status in Australia and New Zealand (ANZ).As reported in the medical journal Diabetes Care:
"End stage renal disease remains a dreadful complication in patients with type 1 diabetes, and great effort to prevent kidney disease in these young patients is needed.
Compared with non-diabetic patients, the risk of death after the first renal replacement therapy was 64 percent higher in those with type 1 diabetes and 13 percent higher in those with type 2 diabetes.
Despite high access to renal transplants, type 1 diabetic patients had a poor prognosis after starting renal replacement therapy."Diabetes is the most important cause of ESRD - a condition wherein the kidneys lose their ability to filter waste products from the blood and excrete them in the urine and that people with ESRD need kidney dialysis or a kidney transplant to stay alive.

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