Progressive renal insufficiency. Office strategies to prevent or slow progression of kidney disease.

摘要

Prevention of chronic renal failure should be a primary healthcare goal in the new millennium. Better control of blood pressure, blood glucose, and lipid levels shows promise for slowing and perhaps even preventing renal dysfunction. Protein-sparing diets also may prove to be important. While it is not yet known whether combining interventions to treat each of these factors will have additive or synergistic effects, it seems prudent to approach these problems aggressively.