P re-eclampsia, a clinical syndrome of unknown etiology, is among the most common reasons for perinatal and maternal mortality (1). The incidence of pre-eclampsia in women with type 1 diabetes is considerably higher (10–20%) than in the background population (4– 5%) (2). Microalbuminuria, defined as a urinary albumin excretion from 30 to 300 mg/24 h before or in early pregnancy has proven to be...

Our study evaluates the long-term effect of microalbuminuria on mortality among patients with acute myocardial infarction. We followed 151 patients from 1996 to 2007 to investigate if microalbuminuria is a risk factor in coronary heart disease. All patients admitted with acute myocardial infarction in 1996 were included. At baseline, we recorded urinary albumin/creatinine concentration ratio, b...

AIM To test the usefulness of a random urine specimen albumin to creatinine ratio (A/C) in predicting 12 hour urinary albumin excretion (12UA) in patients with sickle cell disease. METHODS 12UA and A/C were measured in nocturnal urine collections and random morning urine samples, respectively, of 72 patients with sickle cell disease. RESULTS The correlation of A/C values with 12UA values di...

BACKGROUND The association of serum bilirubin concentrations with kidney function and albuminuria has not been established in the US general population. METHODS We performed a cross-sectional analysis of data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) 2001-2006 and examined the associations of serum total bilirubin concentrations with estimated glomerular filtration ra...

INTRODUCTION. Hyperuricemia is an independent risk factor for kidney dysfunction in diabetic patients. On the other hand, albuminuria is considered as the proxy of early stages of diabetic nephropathy. We investigated the correlation between hyperuricemia and albuminuria in patients with diabetes mellitus. MATERIALS AND METHODS. In a cross-sectional study of 1275 patients (555 men and 720 women...

BACKGROUND Increasing studies have suggested that albuminuria might be an important risk factor for peripheral artery disease (PAD). However, studies focusing on the association between low-grade albuminuria and PAD are limited. It would be of great interest to elucidate the association between low-grade albuminuria and PAD in diabetic subjects. METHODS A cross-sectional study was conducted i...

We investigated the role of measurement of serum and urinary type IV collagen (IV-C) levels in monitoring diabetic microangiopathy. Furthermore, we compared these levels in diabetic nephropathy and non-diabetic renal disease (NDRD). A one-step sandwich enzyme immunoassay was used to measure IV-C levels in 82 diabetic patients, 33 NDRD patients and 20 healthy non-diabetic control subjects. The d...

Dysregulation of renal tubular protein handling in proteinuria contributes to the development of chronic kidney disease. We investigated the role of CD36 as a novel candidate mediator of albumin binding and endocytosis in the kidney proximal tubule using both in vitro and in vivo approaches, and in nephrotic patient renal biopsy samples. In CD36-transfected opossum kidney proximal tubular cells...