They are College of Medicine seniors Lim Tae-hoon, Lee Dong-sung, Choi Se-ra (Advisors Endocrinology Professor Moon Jun-sung, Professor Jung Seung-min) The research team conducted retrospective analysis on diabetes patients that were examined at YU Medical Center for about three years and found that the group with a brachial-ankle pulse wave velocity of 1,800cm/s or higher with peripheral arteriosclerosis had about 8.5 times higher risk of getting diabetic kidney diseases than the control group. The research results were clinically significant in that patients with high risk of dialysis or kidney transplants among the vascular complications of diabetes can be predicted to prevent it through assertive treatment.

 

  Lim Tae-hoon, the primary author, said, “I wanted to conduct clinical studies that could help the actual medical field, and it is a pleasure that we were able to obtain meaningful results through the help of fellow students and professors. I want to continue to work in medicine and research that help patients after earning my doctor’s license.”

 

  Professor Moon Jun-sung who was the advisor for this study said, “I hope that the research results that they achieved by participating passionately despite their busy schedule to prepare for national exams and lab work will serve as a great opportunity for growth as doctors in the future. We will continue to do our best to foster doctors with research capacities in the future.”

 

  This paper was published on the October 30 issue of <Frontiers in Medicine, impact factor (IF) 3.10> that is in the top 17% of the Medicine, General & Internal international academic journal.