Factors associated with chronic kidney disease in patients with diabetes in French Guiana.

Introduction: With over half of the population living under the poverty threshold, the social and health context in French Guiana is more difficult than in mainland France. The prevalence of diabetes is twice as great and end-stage renal failure is 45% higher than in mainland France.

Objective: Our objective was to describe the profile of diabetic patients with chronic kidney disease in French Guiana and search for possible risk factors.

Skin autofluorescence predicts cancer in subjects with type 2 diabetes.

Introduction: Subjects with type 2 diabetes have an excess risk of cancer. The potential role of advanced glycation end products (AGEs) accumulated during long-term hyperglycemia in cancer development has been suggested by biological studies but clinical data are missing. AGEs can be estimated by measuring the skin autofluorescence.

Skin autofluorescence, a marker of glucose memory in type 2 diabetes.

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