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The classic course of diabetic kidney disease (DKD) natural history. Classic DKD is thought to begin with rise of urine albumin excretion, initially to microalbuminuria (lower dashed red line), then proceed to macroalbuminuria (upper dashed line), with glomerular filtration rate (GFR) dropping only after macroalbuminuria.
