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

Progression to macroalbuminuria (urinary albumin excretion, >200 μg per minute), or overt nephropathy, occurs in 20 to 40 percent of patients over a period of 15 to 20 years after the onset of ...

The analysis included around 105,000 people from 14 studies with urine albumin-to-creatinine ratio (ACR) measurements; ... (the threshold for defining overt albuminuria, ...

Persistent albuminuria in the range of 30-299 mg/24 h (microalbuminuria) has been shown to be the earliest stage of diabetic nephropathy and is a significant risk marker for cardiovascular disease ...

Persistent elevation of urinary albumin excretion above 30 μg per minute is rare in the general population, 13,15 but in patients with type 1 diabetes the lifetime risk of such elevation is ...

A meta-analysis of more than a million people in populations across Europe, the USA, Australia, and Asia has shown that both glomerular filtration rate (GFR) (the rate at which blood is filtered ...

Researchers in Italy developed and validated a new model that identified patients with cirrhosis at risk for developing overt hepatic encephalopathy, according to published findings.“In this ...