ReviewCurrent hypertension reports2010
Is the presence of microalbuminuria a relevant marker of kidney disease?
Review in Current hypertension reports, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05733754 (Proteinuria as an Early Prognostic Factor for Detecting Possible Renal Affection After Liver Transplantation, a Single Egyptian Center Study), which is not on this map. Cited by 65 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Proteinuria as an Early Prognostic Factor for Detecting Possible Renal Affection After Liver Transplantation, a Single Egyptian Center Study
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65 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 141 citations in OpenAlex.
- Microalbuminuria among HIV/AIDS patients in Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC infectious diseases · 2025Pooled it
- Identification of candidate microRNA biomarkers in diabetic nephropathy: a meta-analysis of profiling studies.Journal of nephrology · 2018Pooled it
- Effectiveness of targeted screening for chronic kidney disease in the community setting: a systematic review.Journal of nephrology · 2018Pooled it
- Changes in urinary albumin levels with dotinurad oral administration in hyperuricemic patients with microalbuminuria: a post hoc analysis.Clinical and experimental nephrology · 2025Trial
- Urinary albumin-to-creatinine ratio is associated with endothelial dysfunction in HIV-infected patients receiving antiretroviral therapy.Scientific reports · 2016Trial
- Abdominal Obesity, Race and Chronic Kidney Disease in Young Adults: Results from NHANES 1999-2010.PloS one · 2016Trial
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- Renal complications in pediatric sickle cell disease: results from a single-center study.Annals of hematology · 2026Article
- Empagliflozin protected kidney function in CKD rat through suppressing hypoxic and fibrotic signalings mediated inflammation and EMT.Histology and histopathology · 2026Article
- Inflammatory markers associated with albuminuria and early atherosclerosis in type 2 diabetic kidney disease: a cross-sectional study.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2026Article
- CKAP4 in Extracellular Vesicle-Derived From Podocyte Serves as a Non-Invasive Diagnostic Biomarker for Diabetic Nephropathy and Promotes Vascular Calcification.Journal of extracellular vesicles · 2025Article
- Association Between Renal Cell Cancer and Chronic Kidney Disease: An Update on a Never-Healing Wound.Biomedicines · 2025Review
- New composite phenotypes enhance chronic kidney disease classification and genetic associations.PLoS genetics · 2025Article
- Cross ethnic Mendelian randomization analysis reveals causal relationship between air pollution and risk of kidney stones.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Risk Factor-Based Screening for Early Detection of Chronic Kidney Disease in Primary Care Settings: A Systematic Review.Kidney medicine · 2025Article
- The predictive value of urinary albumin-to-creatinine ratio for coronary artery abnormalities in Kawasaki disease.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2025Article
- Risk factors for renal impairment in primary aldosteronism: a retrospective study.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2025Article
- The Regulatory Effect of Human Umbilical Cord Mesenchymal Stem Cells on the Gut Microbiota in Diabetic Nephropathy Rats.Iranian journal of biotechnology · 2025Article
- The Impairment of Endothelial Autophagy Accelerates Renal Senescence by Ferroptosis and NLRP3 Inflammasome Signaling Pathways with the Disruption of Endothelial Barrier.Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- INCREASED RENAL RESISTIVE INDEX AS A MARKER OF EARLY STAGE OF DIABETIC NEPHROPATHY IN NORMOALBUMINURIC CHILDREN WITH TYPE 1 DIABETES MELLITUS.Acta clinica Croatica · 2024Article
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Abstract
Levels of urinary albumin excretion that are below the usual limit of detection by qualitative testing, but are above normal levels (microalbuminuria; MA), can be readily identified by simple measures, such as the urinary albumin to creatinine ratio in untimed urine samples. Such measurements, particularly when combined with assessment of estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR), have utility as biomarkers for enhanced risk of all-cause mortality, cardiovascular events, progressive chronic kidney disease, and end-stage renal disease in diabetic and nondiabetic subjects. However, it is controversial whether "isolated" MA (MA in the absence of a clear reduction in eGFR, urine sediment abnormalities, or structural renal disease) should be regarded as kidney disease. Such MA could also be regarded as a manifestation of a diffuse endothelial (microvascular) injury and thereby collateral kidney damage. This article reviews the current evidence concerning MA as a marker of kidney disease or kidney damage.
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