Aims: This study aims to develop and validate a predictive model for Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) progression in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM).Methods: We conducted a prospective study on 1582 patients with T2DM from a Diabetes Centre in regional hospital in 2002-2014. CKD progression was defined as deterioration across eGFR categories with >= 25% drop from baseline. The dataset was randomly split into development (70%) and validation (30%) datasets. Stepwise multivariable logistic regression was used to identify baseline predictors for model development. Model performance in the two datasets was assessed.Results: During median follow-up of 5.5 years, 679 (42.9%) had CKD progression. Progression occurred in 467 (42.2%) and 212 patients (44.6%) in development and validation datasets respectively. Systolic blood pressure, HbA1c, estimated glomerular filtration rate and urinary albumin-to-creatinine ratio were associated with progression. Areas under receiving-operating- characteristics curve for the training and test datasets were 0.80 (95% CI, 0.77-0.83) and 0.83 (95% CI, 0.79-0.87). Observed and predicted probabilities by quintiles were not statistically different with Hosmer-Lemeshow chi(2) 0.65 (p = 0.986) and 1.36 (p = 0.928) in the two datasets. Sensitivity and specificity were 71.4% and 72.2% in development dataset, and 75.6% and 72.3% in the validation dataset.Conclusions: A model using routinely available clinical measurements can accurately predict CKD progression in T2DM. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.