“…For some years, evidence for a correlation between an increased risk of chronic kidney disease (CKD) and diabetic kidney disease (DKD) in prediabetes has been recorded [ 35 , 46 ]. Characteristic features found in 14 cohort studies are summarized in Table 2 [ 47 , 48 , 49 , 50 , 51 , 52 , 53 , 54 , 55 , 56 , 57 , 58 , 59 , 60 ]. Half of the studies [ 48 , 49 , 50 , 51 , 52 , 53 , 54 ] were designed mainly to assess the relationship between metabolic syndrome and CKD.…”