The recommended albumin (microg)/creatinine (mg) ratio (ACR) (30 microg/mg) to detect microalbuminuria does not account for sex or racial differences in creatinine excretion. In a nationally representative sample of subjects, the distribution of urine albumin and creatinine concentrations was examined by using one ACR value (> or =30 microg/mg) and sex-specific cutpoints (> or =17 microg/mg in ...

AIMS Type 2 diabetes mellitus and microalbuminuria are important risk factors for cardiovascular disease (CVD). Whether these two complications are important and independent risk factors for future CVD events in a high-risk population with clinically manifest vascular disease is unknown. The objectives of this study were to examine the impact of Type 2 diabetes and microalbuminuria on future CV...

Microalbuminuria, a slightly elevated urinary albumin excretion, predicts renal failure in insulin-dependent diabetic patients and premature cardiovascular mortality in non-insulin-dependent diabetic patients and in the general population. It can be related to all currently established cardiovascular risk factors. Regarding the relationship between urinary albumin and blood pressure, microalbum...

Microalbuminuria represents a condition wherein the urinary albumin excretion is in the range of 30 mg/24 hrs -300 mg/24 hrs. Recently microalbuminuria is gaining attention as more than just a surrogate marker of kidney damage. Although apparently representing passage of a rather trace amount of protein excretion, this has great implication in terms of clinico-pathological association with diab...

OBJECTIVE To assess the potential association between A1C variability (A1C-SD) and microalbuminuria in young people with type 1 diabetes. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS Serially collected samples for A1C measurement were available for 1,232 subjects with childhood-onset type 1 diabetes recruited to the Oxford Regional Prospective Study and the Nephropathy Family Study. RESULTS The median (rang...

fewer competing cardiovascular events. Thus, although data indicate that we can alter the progression of normoto microalbuminuria, microto macroalbuminuria, and macroalbuminuria to end-stage renal disease/death, we still lack a prospective trial to test the hypothesis that medical management of microalbuminuria affects patient-centered events independent of blood pressure reduction. Lastly, rec...

It has previously been shown that microalbuminuria is a useful disease activity marker for inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Microalbuminuria correlates strongly with the markers of clinical and laboratory disease activity such as erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR), and C reactive protein (CRP). The aim of this study was to discover if microalbuminuria accurately reflects the intestinal infla...

OBJECTIVE To determine the frequency of microalbuminuria and its associations in type-2 diabetic subjects attending diabetes centers/clinics across Karachi, Pakistan. METHODS Two thousand one hundred subjects with type-2 diabetes were screened for microalbuminuria using Micral test strip II. A single screening test was performed in 25 diabetes centers/units in different districts of Karachi f...

Objective: To determine the prevalence of microalbuminuria and associated risk factors among type 2 diabetic patients with no proteinuria by urine dipstick test, attending a diabetic clinic in King Abdulaziz University Hospital. Patients and Methods: Three hundred and thirty one type 2 diabetes patients were recruited for the study. Urinary albumin concentration was measured by immunoturbodimet...

Introduction The detection of small amounts of urinary albumin excretion (UAE), a condition known as microalbuminuria, by using sensitive immunological methods was initially used in the evaluation and management of renal damage in diabetes. In the last few years, however, it has received increased attention as a prognostic marker for cardiovascular and/or renal risk in non-diabetic subjects [1–...