Objective: Albuminuria is an early marker of renal impairment and a powerful factor of progression of renal disease in type 2 diabetes (T2D). Approximately, one-third of patients with T2D have micro- or macroalbuminuria and these patients have a high risk of progression toward End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) as well as increased cardiovascular disease. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of remission, regression, persistence, and progression of albuminuria, and to evaluate the impact of change in albuminuria on kidney disease and cardiovascular disease in a prospective cohort of patients with T2D.
Methods: This is a prospective study. The Ethics Committee of Morocco's Mohammed V University in Rabat approved the study protocol. Inclusion criteria targeted patients who were type 2 diabetics with albuminuria >30 mg/day, and who had been regularly followed-up in nephrology consultation for at least 36 months.
Results: Five-hundred twenty-four patients were included. 75.8 and 24.6% of all patients had micro- and macroalbuminuria at enrollment in the study. At the end of the study, 91, 141, 199, and 93 patients had remission, regression, persistence, and progression of albuminuria, respectively. Remission of microalbuminuria to normoalbuminuria was observed in 23.6% of cases. Regression of macroalbuminuria to micro- was observed in 29.9% of cases.
Conclusion: In our study, the incidence of remission and/or regression of micro- and macroalbuminuria was higher. The incidence of ESRD and the occurrence of cardiac events were greater in the regression, persistence, and progression groups than in the remission of albuminuria group.
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World J Nephrol
December 2024
Department of Physiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences-Bibinagar, Hyderabad 508126, Telangana, India.
Background: Globally, diabetic nephropathy (DN) is the primary cause of chronic kidney disease. Currently, renal function is monitored indirectly using measures of serum creatinine, estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR), and proteinuria. Novel urinary biomarkers utilized in the early stages of DN have been described; these indicators can be used in the early identification of the disease, which is important for initiating treatment to halt or impediment the advance of diabetic nephropathy.
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November 2024
Department of Endocrinology, Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, 155 Han-Zhong Road, Nanjing, 210029, China.
Int J Nephrol
November 2024
College of Public Health, Medical and Veterinary Science, James Cook University, 1 James Cook Drive, Douglas, Townsville, Queensland 4811, Australia.
Glomerular injury may occur during pregnancy as a consequence of systemic disease and pregnancy-related medical complications. While urinary nephrin has been shown to provide early identification of preeclampsia (PE) in high-risk pregnancies, the role of urinary nephrin in determining glomerular injury in pregnant women is yet to be explored. This study aimed to investigate the use of urinary nephrin as a predictor for early glomerular injury in a study conducted at the Townville University Hospital.
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January 2025
Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Background: Finerenone has kidney-protective effects in patients with chronic kidney disease with type 2 diabetes, but effects on kidney outcomes in patients with heart failure with and without diabetes and/or chronic kidney disease are not known.
Objectives: The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of finerenone on kidney outcomes in FINEARTS-HF (Finerenone Trial to Investigate Efficacy and Safety Superior to Placebo in Patients With Heart Failure), a randomized trial of finerenone vs placebo among patients with heart failure with mildly reduced or preserved ejection fraction.
Methods: We explored the effects of finerenone on the secondary outcome of a sustained ≥50% estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) decline or kidney failure (sustained eGFR decline <15 mL/min/1.
Diabet Med
October 2024
Public Health and Primary Care/ Health campus The Hague, Leiden University Medical Center, The Hague, Netherlands.
Aim: Although South Asians have an increased risk to develop diabetes, data on the difference in development and progression of diabetic nephropathy between ethnic groups are not consistent. The aim of this study was to evaluate possible differences in the development and progression of albuminuria in South Asians and Western Europeans (WE) with type 2 diabetes in a large closed cohort of South Asians with type 2 diabetes.
Methods: Data on 1269 South Asians and 2272 Dutch adults with type 2 diabetes who were treated in our diabetes clinic in 2006 or referred thereafter were extracted from electronic medical records.
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