The Link Between Diabetes and Kidney Disease

March is National Kidney Month! Did you know that people with diabetes are at high risk for kidney disease? Learn how you can educate patients about their risk for kidney disease, how the disease might affect their health, and how they can modify their lifestyle to prevent or slow the disease.

About the Expert

Meda Pavkov

MD, PhD

Dr. Pavkov is a medical epidemiologist in the Chronic Kidney Disease Initiative within the Division for Diabetes Translation at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and is a co-author of the “Kidney Disease in Diabetes” chapter in the NIDDK publication Diabetes in America, 3rd Edition. Dr. Pavkov is a physician scientist whose research centers on complications of diabetes.