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The unrecognized prevalence of chronic kidney disease in diabetes.
Nephrol Dial Transplant
January 2006
Department of Renal Medicine, Hope Hospital, Stott Lane, Salford M6 8HD, UK, and Chronic Disease Research Group and University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA.
Background: Diabetes mellitus and chronic kidney disease (CKD) are common and exhibit synergistic associations with premature mortality. Current diabetes guidelines in the UK recommend annual urinary albumin and serum creatinine determinations to screen for diabetic kidney disease. The aim of this study was to estimate the burden of CKD in patients with diabetes and examine the ability of serum creatinine and albuminuria to detect clinically meaningful CKD compared with estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR).
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