Understanding of diabetic kidney disease and reflecting of the current clinical research situation of Chinese medicine / 中国中西医结合杂志

ABSTRACT

Along with the development of clinical and pathological studies, and the wide spreading of the concepts or ideas of chronic kidney disease (CKD) and diabetic kidney disease (DKD), the clinical research of DKD has entered a new stage, which has brought new requirements for Chinese medicine treatment of DKD. It is necessary to carry out good design, have reasonable inclusion and exclusion criteria, select appropriate biomarkers capable of reflecting the pathophysiology of DKD, choose convincible hard endpoints capable of reflecting the prognosis of DKD, and conduct observations of enough long therapeutic course. This is the main trend of conducting clinical trials of DKD and scientifically assessing the efficacy of Chinese medicine treatment of DKD.