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:research in cardiovascular medicine
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massimo iacoviello department of cardiothoracic, cardiology unit, policlinic university hospital, bari, italy; department of cardiothoracic, cardiology unit, policlinic university hospital, p. o. box: 70124, bari, italy. tel: +39-0805478622, fax: +39-0805478796
nadia aspromonte dea department, cardiology unit, san filippo neri hospital, rome, italy
marta leone department of emergency and organ transplantation, school of cardiology, university of bari, bari, italy
valeria paradies department of emergency and organ transplantation, school of cardiology, university of bari, bari, italy
valeria antoncecchi department of emergency and organ transplantation, school of cardiology, university of bari, bari, italy
roberto valle cardiology unit, hospital department, chioggia ulss 14, chioggia, italy
results among the patients enrolled, 61 had microalbuminuria (uacr, 30-299) and 133 normoalbuminuria (uacr, < 30). patients with normoalbuminuria showed significantly higher levels of gal-3 than those without (19.9 ± 8.8 vs. 14.6 ± 5.5 ng/ml). the stepwise regression analysis indicated that gal-3 was the first determinant of microalbuminuria (odds ratio [or]: 1.08; 95% confidence interval [ci]:...
