Focus on Microalbuminuria to Improve Cardiac and Renal Protection
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Focus on microalbuminuria to improve cardiac and renal protection.
With the recent attention to diagnose earlier stages of chronic kidney diseases (CKD), most attention focuses on screening for an impaired estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR), i.e. CKD stages 3-5. Less attention is given to the impact of the urinary leakage of albumin. Its presence is not taken into account in the definition of stages 3-5, but only required to diagnose stages 1 and 2. A...
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عنوان ژورنال: Nephron Clinical Practice
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1660-2110
DOI: 10.1159/000201568