Pancreas and kidneys
Uncontrolled diabetes causes damage to many tissues of the body including the kidneys. Kidney damage caused by diabetes most often involves thickening and hardening of the internal kidney structures. Strict blood glucose control may delay the progression of kidney disease in type 1 and type 2 diabetics.
Review Date: 05/20/2009
Reviewed By: David Zieve, MD, MHA, Medical Director, A.D.A.M., Inc. Also
reviewed by Deborah Wexler, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine,
Harvard Medical School, Endocrinologist, Massachusetts General
Hospital.
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