Diabetes Type 1, Treatment Study Atacand/Placebo After Kidney Biopsy

The type 1 diabetes patients who were still normoalbuminuric and normotensive, after 17 years duration and a second research kidney biopsy, could enter the double blind treatment study of Atacand or Placebo. The treatment study continues for five years treatment and ends with a third kidney biopsy. The study hypothesis is that the effect of ARB during 5 years on the histopathology are more pronounced than the effect on histopathology of placebo.