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Research Progress on Pathogenesis of Diabetic Nephropathy and Intervention with Traditional Chinese Medicine.

Key takeaways

This is a review paper, not a new study. It walks through how diabetes damages the kidneys, including inflammation and scarring, and argues that traditional Chinese medicine may act on several of those pathways at once instead of just one. Diabetic kidney disease is the leading cause of chronic kidney disease worldwide, so the target matters. But the paper reports no new patient results, and it does not show that any of these herbal treatments slow kidney decline.

Who did this work

Guan Y · Huang J · Ma J · Qiu L · Wu X · Dong Y · Luo W · Lei Z

Source

Article · PubMed, CKD progression and prevention · 2026 Aug 25
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42668961/