High urinary sodium-to-potassium ratio is considered a strong risk factor for hypertension. This study aimed to evaluate excretion of sodium and potassium, we analyzed these levels associated with dietary intake in Japanese adolescent football players. cross-sectional included 120 male Over 24 h, urine was collected measured creatinine, sodium, potassium levels. A assessment performed using sel...

We determined the urinary excretion, expressed as the protein/creatinine ratio (morning urines), of albumin (a marker of glomerular dysfunction) and retinol-binding protein (RBP; a low-molecular-mass protein marker of tubular proteinuria) in 102 non-insulin-dependent diabetic patients. There was a statistically significant (P < 0.0001) correlation (rho = 0.38) between the urinary excretion valu...

1. The effects of posture and exercise on the relationship between low-level urinary albumin excretion (microalbuminuria) and blood pressure was investigated in two groups of non-diabetic patients at increased cardiovascular risk: 21 otherwise healthy patients with untreated essential hypertension (blood pressure greater than 160/90 mmHg), and 14 age-matched patients with blood pressure at pres...

OBJECTIVE To find whether sodium sensitivity of blood pressure appears before hypertension and whether the sensitivity is related to diabetic nephropathy, we examined type 2 diabetic patients with normal levels of serum creatinine. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS A total of 32 patients were divided into three age-matched groups: 11 patients had normoalbuminuria, 12 had microalbuminuria, and 9 had...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES The family caregivers of patients with chronic diseases are known to undergo psychiatric stress leading to oxidative damage to glomerular membrane of kidney resulting in proteinuria. This study was aimed to compare current anxiety, depression levels and urinary albumin:creatinine ratio between primary caregivers of chronic mental patients and matched controls, and also w...