Kidney Disease May Change Your Dose of Diabetes Medicines
If you have diabetes, or high blood sugar, you may be taking medicines to help control your blood sugar. Diabetes is the leading cause of kidney failure in the U.S. If your kidneys don’t work well, some of these medicines could last longer than normal or build up to unsafe levels in your blood. (Healthy kidneys remove these medicines.) So, your dose of diabetes medicines may need to change if you have kidney disease or if your kidneys fail. If you would like to learn more about diabetes and kidney disease, visit How to Slow Kidney Disease: When You Have Diabetes.