AGENT FOR CRITICAL PREVENTION AND TREATMENT OF TYPE II DIABETIC NEPHROPATHY CONTAINING ORGANOGERMANIUM COMPOUND AS ACTIVE INGREDIENT

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an agent for critical prevention and treatment of type II diabetic nephropathy. SOLUTION: It is discovered that an organogermanium compound represented by the formula: [(O1/2 )3 Ge-A-CO2 H]n (wherein, n is a number of >=1; A is a lower alkyl group) extremely prevents the onset and the progress of the type II diabetic nephropathy. This agent for prevention and treatment of the type II diabetic nephropathy contains the organogermanium compound, preferably 3-oxygermylpropionic acid as an active ingredient.