Monitoring and management of hyperglycemia in patients with advanced diabetic kidney disease.

J Diabetes Complications

Graduate Program in Medical Sciences: Endocrinology, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil; Endocrine Unit, Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil. Electronic address:

Published: February 2021

Diabetes mellitus is the leading cause of end-stage renal disease, and uncontrolled hyperglycemia is directly related to the increased mortality in this setting. As kidney function decreases, it becomes more challenging to control blood glucose since the risk of hypoglycemia increases. Decreased appetite, changes in glycaemia homeostasis, along with reduced renal excretion of anti-hyperglycemic drugs tend to facilitate the occurrence of hypoglycemia, despite the paradoxical occurrence of insulin resistance in advanced kidney disease. Thus, in patients using insulin and/or oral anti-hyperglycemic agents, dynamic adjustments with drug dose reduction or drug switching are often necessary. Furthermore, in addition to consider these pharmacokinetics alterations, it is of utmost importance to choose drugs with proven cardio-renal benefits in this setting, such as sodium-glucose co-transporter 2 inhibitors and glucagon-like peptide 1 receptor agonists. In this review, we summarize the indications and contraindications, titration of doses and side effects of the available anti-hyperglycemic agents in the presence of advanced diabetic kidney disease (DKD) and dialysis, highlighting the risks and benefits of the different agents. Additionally, basic renal function assessment and monitoring of glycemic control in DKD will be evaluated in order to guide the use of drugs and define the glycemic targets to be achieved.

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