Correction to: Nature Reviews Endocrinology https://doi.org/10.1038/s41574-025-01171-3, published online 11 September 2025.

In the version of the article initially published, the first sentence of the Abstract read “Kidney disease is the leading cause of mortality in persons with diabetes mellitus” and has now been corrected to “Kidney disease is one of the leading causes of mortality in persons with diabetes mellitus” in the HTML and PDF versions of the article.