Prevalence of diabetic nephropathy complicating non-diabetic renal disease among Chinese patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus

Table 1 Diabetic nephropathy (DN) with non-diabetic renal disease (NDRD) in diabetic patients: literature summary

Pathological types	Number of cases (%)	References
Glomerular diseases
IgA nephropathy	31 (14.1%)	[10, 15, 16, 21, 28, 30]
Mesangial proliferative glomerulonephritis	22 (10%)	[12, 15, 19, 28, 30]
Post-infectious glomerulonephritis	22 (10%)	[12, 29, 30]
Membranous nephropathy	15 (6.8%)	[6, 10, 15, 17, 21, 28]
Immune complex-trapping glomerulonephritis	12 (5.5%)	[13, 29, 30]
Crescentic glomerulonephritis	8 (3.6%)	[12, 13, 16]
Focal segmental glomerulosclerosis	7 (3.2%)	[10, 12, 13, 15, 16]
Minimal change glomerulopathy	3 (1.4%)	[12, 19]
Membrano-proliferative glomerulonephritis	3 (1.4%)	[10, 16, 29]
Lupus glomerulonephritis	2 (1.0%)	[29]
Fibrillary glomerulonephritis	1 (0.5%)	[16]
Necrotizing focal glomerulonephritis	1 (0.5%)	[29]
Hepatitis-related nephritis	1 (0.5%)	[17]
Vascular
Hypertensive changes and arterionephrosclerosis	19 (8.6%)	[12, 16, 17, 22, 30]
Atheroembolic renal disease	2 (1.0%)	[12]
Thrombotic microangiopathy	1 (0.5%)	[13]
Tubulointerstitial
Tubulointerstitial nephritis	50 (22.7%)	[6, 10, 12, 16, 22, 30]
Pyelonephritis	5 (2.3%)	[12, 16, 22]
Toxemia of pregnancy	1 (0.5%)	[28]
Other	14 (6.4%)	[10, 30]
Total	220

DN, diabetic nephropathy; IgA, immunoglobulin A; NDRD, non-diabetic renal disease.

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