SLC5A2 and chronic kidney disease: Diabetic patients are at higher risk of AKI than nondiabetic patients, which can be attributed to diabetes, chronic kidney disease, hyperglycemic crisis, drugs that is, ACE inhibitors and sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 (SGLT2) inhibitors, associated cardiovascular disease and heart failure, and previous AKI episodes.[56] Girman et al[20] in a retrospective cohort showed that diabetic patients were 8 times more likely to have incident acute renal failure than nondiabetic patients.