In this cohort study of living kidney donors and nondonors with the same follow-up schedule, the risks of hypertension and albuminuria were not significantly different. After the initial drop in ...

The link between red, processed, and white meat consumption and the likelihood of developing kidney damage and diabetic ...

Partly because of this, there has been a recent call to abandon microalbuminuria in favor of the term 'albuminuria-associated disease'. 20,21 This concept has merit when considering the role of ...

Table 1. Diabetic Nephropathy Stages: Cutoff Values of Urine Albumin for Diagnosis and Main Clinical Characteristics Stages Albuminuria cutoff values (ref. 14) Clinical characteristics (ref. no.) ...

The presence of microalbumin in the urine of persons with type 2 diabetes is perhaps the most important early signal heralding the onset of systemic vasculopathy and associated target organ damage ...