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A Venn diagram of the notions of diabetic kidney disease and diabetic nephropathy. Diabetic nephropathy, which was originally a pathological diagnosis, includes only patients or animals whose kidney damage was obviously from diabetes mellitus. In contrast, diabetic kidney disease means chronic kidney disease with diabetes, regardless of other comorbidities, such as atherosclerosis and glomerulonephritis. Therefore, diabetic kidney disease encompasses diabetic nephropathy.
