Kidney Patients With Diabetes: Managing Their Medication

CONCLUSION
Knowing how to manage the patient with both diabetes and kidney disease is increasingly vital as this patient population grows. Much of the management of these patients will fall to the primary care practitioner.⁶ The most effective way to start treatment is to identify which CKD stage the patient fits into.

Once the patient is properly categorized, safe and effective diabetic medications can be selected and dosed according to stage. Although the new classification system may be difficult to incorporate into some electronic medical record systems and practitioner behavior, ultimately, it will allow safer management of the patient with CKD and a better predictive power of outcome.