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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1];Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Ahmed Younes M.B.B.CH [2]

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Diabetic nephropathy was first described by Clifford Wilson and Paul Kimmelstiel in 1936.^[1]
Diabetic nephropathy is often called Wilson-Kimmelstiel syndrome after the two scientists.

↑ Bergstrand A, Ostman J (January 1984). "[The men behind the syndrome: Paul Kimmelstiel and Clifford Wilson. A German and an Englishman who met at Harvard - the first ones to describe a special glomerulus lesion]". Lakartidningen (in Swedish). 81 (4): 227–8. PMID 6366406.