Diabetic kidney disease in patients newly diagnosed with type-2 diabetes mellitus: Incidence and associations

Autor: Amal Helmy Abdelhameed, Waleed Elrefaey, Mabrouk Ramadan AlSheikh, Mohamed Aboelnasr, Ahmed Kotb Shaltout
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Saudi Journal of Kidney Diseases and Transplantation, Vol 31, Iss 1, Pp 191-199 (2020)
ISSN: 1319-2442
Popis: The global prevalence of type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) in adults is increasing all over the world. Diabetic kidney disease (DKD) is one of the most common complications of DM. The aim of the present work is to study chronic kidney disease (CKD) in patients newly diagnosed with type 2 DM as regards incidence and associations. This is a comparative cross-sectional study. The study included 153 patients with newly diagnosed type 2 DM over the past six months. DKD was diagnosed if urinary albumin to creatinine ratio >30 mg/g in two out of three-morning urine samples collected within three to six months and/or estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR)
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