Background: The relationship between uric acid and microalbuminuria in healthy adults without other cardiovascular risk factors may help to clarify the role of uric acid in cardiovascular disease. Objective: To study and compare the association of serum uric acid levels with microalbuminuria in normotensive and pre-hypertensive subjects without a history of cardiovascular disease or renal dysfu...

Microalbuminuria in adults has been found to be an early indicator of both renal and systemic vascular disease, as well as significant cardiovascular risk predictor and therapeutic marker. Its role in essential hypertension in adults has also been well established. As diseases like hypertension and obesity have their roots in childhood and are already present in children, influencing the morbid...

The relationship between microalbuminuria and tissue-type plasminogen activator antigen (tPA-ag) and fibrinogen was evaluated in non-diabetic subjects. Subjects were participants of the D.E.S.I.R. (Data from an Epidemiological Study on the Insulin Resistance syndrome) Study. Analyses were carried out on 2248 women and 2402 men for fibrinogen and on 272 women and 284 men for tPA-ag. Microalbumin...

Microalbuminuria is a pre-clinical marker of renal damage in children with sickle cell anaemia and can predict renal failure. Reported prevalence rates increased with age. In Nigeria, burden of disease and prevailing poor health facilities necessitate its screening, determination of prevalence and associated risk factors. It is a cross-sectional as well as descriptive study. Screening microalbu...

INTRODUCTION Since Glycated Albumin (GA) reflects short term variations and glycated protein shows degrees of hyperglycaemia, the objective of this study was to find GA and microalbuminuria as a early risk markers along with the duration of Uncontrolled Diabetes Mellitus in type 2 diabetic nephropathy. MATERIAL AND METHODS The present cross-sectional study included randomly selected Uncontrol...

OBJECTIVE The aim of our study is to investigate the relationship between microalbuminuria and flow-mediated dilatation in familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) patients. MATERIAL AND METHODS In our study, there were two groups consisting of 54 patients who were out of the attack period (43 of whom had no microalbuminuria and 11 of whom had microalbuminuria) and 40 healthy controls (M/F: 12/28)....

The Shiga Microalbuminuria Reduction Trial (SMART) Group. Reduction of microalbuminuria in patients with type 2 diabetes: the Shiga Microalbuminuria Reduction Trial (SMART). Diabetes Care 2007;30:1581–1583 In the APPENDIX section of the article listed above, the affiliations for Makoto Sawaguchi and Nobuo Shirahashi are incorrectly listed as Shiga University of Medical Science and Osaka City Un...

Background: Hypertension is leading and modifiable risk factor for cardiovascular diseases all-cause mortality. Left ventricular hypertrophy, seen in hypertensive patients a strong predictor of unfavourable events. Microalbuminuria considered as principal complications Our study aims at finding prevalence increased urine albumin creatinine ratio left mass index newly diagnosed correlation among...

Sir, In their interesting paper, Lobato et al. [1] studied the importance of microalbuminuria as a predictor of symptomatic disease and clinical nephropathy in familial transthretin related amyloidosis. They demonstrated that microalbuminuria represents a first stage of clinical amyloid nephropathy and that it could be premonitory of neuropathy. They recommend the systematic and regular search ...

AIM To assess the influence of urinary microalbuminuria and hemoglobin concentration on the occurrence and severity of diabetic retinopathy (DR), clinically significant macular edema (CSME) and hard exudate formation. MATERIALS AND METHODS In this prospective cross-sectional study carried out over a period of 2 years, type 2 diabetic patients seeking ocular evaluation for DR were assessed for...