Background: tudies of the beneficial effects of antihypertensive therapy in diabetic nephropathy have largely focused on hypertensive patients with microalbuminuria or overt albuminuria.

3 If retinopathy is present, albuminuria can be attributed with confidence ... reducing the risk of the development or progression of overt nephropathy. The diabetes substudy of the Heart Outcomes ...

Persistent albuminuria in the range of 30-299 mg/24 ... high proportion of patients who progress from microalbuminuria to overt nephropathy and subsequently to ESRD, the use of ACE inhibitors ...

However, controversy surrounds the use of estimated GFR (eGFR) and albuminuria to define chronic ... values of 33.9 (the threshold for defining overt albuminuria, often termed macro-albuminuria).

According to this model, when elevated urinary albumin excretion develops in persons with type 1 diabetes, it can remain static, advance toward overt proteinuria, or regress toward normal levels ...

“We analyzed end-stage liver disease scores, shunt placement, previous overt or minimal HE, psychometric hepatic encephalopathy score, and levels of albumin, bilirubin, creatinine, and sodium to ...