Dr. Sandip Kumar Kundu is working in Biochemistry in KPC Medical College and Hospital, Kolkata, India and doing his clinical practices in various hospitals and clinics in Kolkata. He obtained his MBBS degree from Calcutta National Medical College, Kolkata and MD degree in Biochemistry from the West Bengal University of Health Science, India.

Most of the post graduate medical and health sciences students often face difficulties in doing their dissertation or thesis work. This book may serve as a guide book to them as well as to the new researchers and junior teachers for their thesis/dissertation work. Diabetes has many complications. One such major chronic complication of poorly controlled diabetes is diabetic nephropathy which may lead to end stage renal disease (ESRD). Monitoring for blood sugar control and screening for microalbuminuria and timely treatment has become the standard care of diabetic patients all over the world. This tertiary care hospital based cross sectional study is an attempt to show the association of HbA1c (which is a marker of long term glycemic control) with the two important markers of renal impairments: urinary ACR (which reflects microalbuminuria) and eGFR (marker of creatinine clearance rate or CCR) in type 2 diabetics and to measure the prevalence of CKD in type 2 diabetes patients in eastern region of India where very few data are available.