Patients with diabetic nephropathy stage III can live from several years to several decades, with large individual differences.
Diabetic nephropathy stage III is also called diabetic nephropathy microproteinuria stage, renal function can be kept normal, only a small amount of urinary protein exists, if at this time actively lowering glucose, blood pressure lowering urinary protein treatment, patients with nephropathy progression will be greatly slowed down, the life expectancy can be up to several decades. For those who have rapid progression of kidney disease, the life expectancy may only be a few years.
If not actively controlled, the disease continues to deteriorate, may progress to uremia within a few years, life expectancy is greatly reduced. Diabetic nephropathy progressing to uremic stage should be treated with timely renal replacement therapy, including hemodialysis, peritoneal dialysis and kidney transplantation.
Patients with diabetic nephropathy stage III need to be regularly rechecked for urine protein creatinine ratio, renal function, blood glucose, etc., so that specialists can adjust the treatment plan in time according to the patient’s condition and try to slow down the progression of the disease.