Clinical Conversations

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Posts Tagged ‘diabetic retinopathy’

July 10th, 2009

Podcast 49: Three RASS Study researchers discuss their findings on the lack of benefit of renin-angiotensin blockade in the primary prevention of diabetic nephropathy in Type 1 diabetes.

We talk with Drs. Michael Mauer, Ronald Klein, and Bernard Zinman about their paper in the July 2 New England Journal of Medicine reporting on the RASS study (Renin-Angiotensin System Study). They found that blockade of the renin-angiotensin system was not effective in the primary prevention of diabetic nephropathy in Type 1 diabetes. This week’s […]

Categories: diabetes type 1, nephropathy, renin-angiotensin blockade
Tags: ACE inhibitors, ARBs, aspirin, Bernard Zinman, Darvocet, Darvon, diabetes, diabetic nephropathy, diabetic retinopathy, dronedarone, famotidine, Michael Mauer, propoxyphene, RASS study, renin-angiotensin blockade, Ronald Klein

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