Background: Diabetic nephropathy is a major microvascular complication of diabetes mellitus and the most common cause of end stage renal disease worldwide. It has been proposed that inflammatory process seems to play an important role in the development of diabetes and its late complications. Serum sialic acid, an acute phase reactant and acute phase reactants are considered as the indicators o...

Nephropathy is a common complication of Diabetes Mellitus that could lead to End Stage Kidney Disease (ESKD). Microalbuminuria is important as an ‘early marker’ of renal disease as it represents a time when renal biopsy shows no or minimal changes. Glycosylated Hemoglobin (HbA1c) represents the average glucose concentration over the period of 2-3 months and is accepted as a useful index of mean...

The aging of elastic and muscular arteries: a comparison of diabetic and nondiabetic subjects. Molecular mechanisms responsible for the antiinflammatory and protective effect of HDL on the endothelium.infected patients treated with protease inhibitor-containing highly active antiretroviral therapy. A conceptual model of HIV/ AIDS stigma from five African countries. Disclosure of HIV status: exp...

Hypertension is one of the major risk factor for an increased risk of stroke, myocardial infarction, end-stage renal disease, congestive heart failure and peripheral vascular disease. The kidney is a main target of organ damage in hypertension. Microalbuminuria is one of the earliest indications of kidney injury in patients with hypertension. Total of 50 cases and 50 controls are enrolled into ...

Abstract Introduction. Type 2 diabetes mellitus is the root cause of diabetic nephropathy, a condition affecting kidneys (T2DM). The number people who have type growing. Aim. To evaluate differences in Apelin 13 levels between patients with T2DM had normal or microalbuminuria and those microalbuminuria, as well these healthy controls. intent to better understand its link microalbumin, haemoglob...

Microalbuminuria is considered as a marker of endothelial dysfunction and found to be associated with nephropathy and cardiomyopathy in diabetic and nondiabetic obese patients. In this study, we sought to investigate the effect of childhood obesity on microalbuminuria in children. A total of 96 children who were clinically healthy were enrolled from July 2007 through March 2012. Height, weight ...

Microalbuminuria (MAU), which is the presence of high levels of microalbumin in urine, has been linked to kidney damage or chronic kidney disease (CKD) [1,2]. The presence of microalbumin in urine can therefore be an important marker for cardiovascular and renal risk in diabetes mellitus [3]. Although MAU has been known over the years to be an early predictor of CKD, its clinical relevance has ...