Could your gut bacteria hold the key to protecting your kidneys?

Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.

Patient inclusion criteria： 1. Age ≥18 years old and ≤75 years old, gender is not limited. 2. Complete demographic data. 3. Meet the diagnostic criteria of the Chinese Guidelines for the Prevention and Treatment of Diabetic Kidney Disease (2021 edition), the Chinese Guidelines for the Prevention and Treatment of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (2020 edition), and the Guidelines for the Screening, Diagnosis, Prevention and Treatment of Chronic Kidney Disease (2017 edition). 4. The patient is informed of the study as approved by the ethics committee. Healthy population inclusion criteria: (1) The patient has no known history of infection or risk factors including HIV hepatitis B or C virus syphilis etc. and no current systemic infection; (2) No obesity (body mass index \>30) and/or diabetes no history of chronic kidney disease; (3) Approved by the ethics committee patients were informed about the study. Exclusion criteria： 1. A history of infection or other acute disease within one month prior to enrollment. 2. Current state of stress. 3. Other unstable chronic diseases; 4. A history of acute and chronic gastrointestinal diseases, including acute gastroenteritis, functional gastrointestinal diseases, inflammatory bowel disease, celiac disease, and other chronic gastrointestinal diseases. 5. Individuals who have received systemic antibiotics, immunosuppressants, chemotherapy, or chronic treatment with proton pump inhibitors within the past three months will be excluded from participation. 6. Pregnant or lactating women will also be excluded. 7. Individuals who have participated in other drug clinical trials within the past three months will be excluded. 8. Individuals who suffer from mental illness, intellectual disability, confusion, or other conditions that may interfere with their ability to cooperate with the completion of relevant information collection will also be excluded. Those who were unable to cooperate with the collection of pertinent data were likewise excluded from the study.