Fact or fiction of the epidemic of chronic kidney disease--let us not squabble about estimated GFR only, but also focus on albuminuria
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Estimated GFR, albuminuria, and complications of chronic kidney disease.
Higher levels of albuminuria associate with increased risk for adverse outcomes independent of estimated GFR (eGFR), but whether albuminuria also associates with concurrent complications specific to chronic kidney disease (CKD) is unknown. Here, we assessed the association of spot albumin-to-creatinine ratio with anemia, acidosis, hyperphosphatemia, hypoalbuminemia, hyperparathyroidism, and hyp...
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عنوان ژورنال: Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0931-0509,1460-2385
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfn028