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Position statement
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1 to highlight the global pandemic of type 2 diabetes and diabetic kidney disease. It aimed to alert governments, health organisations, providers, doctors and patients to the increasing health and socioeconomic problems caused by diabetic kidney disease, including end-stage renal disease (ESRD) requiring dialysis and often resulting in cardiovascular death. Seven years later, the same message has become even more urgent. World Kidney Day 2010, under the auspices of the ISN, the International Federation of Kidney Foundations (IFKF) and the IDF, provides yet another chance to underline the importance of diabetic kidney disease, stress the lack of public and government awareness about the disease and emphasise that its management involves prevention, recognition and treatment of its complications. Primary prevention of type 2 diabetes will require massive lifestyle changes in the developing and developed world, supported by strong government commitment to promotional and preventive programs. The global threat of type 2 diabetes The 21st century has the most diabetogenic environment in human history. 2,3 Over the past 25 years or so, the prevalence of type 2 diabetes in the United States has almost doubled, with
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