Comment

The current issue of “Postępy Nauk Medycznych” (“Progress in Medicine”) is a result of the cooperation between centers from Białystok, Warsaw and Zabrze. The published papers are connected with the main topic, i.e. with diabetes and diabetic nephropathy. I will not comment the review papers because of shortage of place, however I would like to recommend these papers to the Reader, hoping that the information included will be helpful in a daily practice.

In this issue there are 5 original papers. In the first one a group of authors from the Medical University of Białystok assessed renal function in the patients with diabetes referred to a coronary artery intervention (1). It is an important problem, as risk of the adverse events after intervention is increasing parallel to a declining renal function. As it was shown, an impaired renal function can be diagnosed in almost half of the patients. The authors conclude that assessing of creatininemia is insufficient for a proper workup, and estimation of glomerular filtration (GFR) is neces

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