Observational studyBMC nephrology2019
Impact of blood glucose levels on the accuracy of urinary N-acety-β-D-glucosaminidase for acute kidney injury detection in critically ill adults: a multicenter, prospective, observational study.
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- Use of ultra high performance liquid chromatography with high resolution mass spectrometry to analyze urinary metabolome alterations following acute kidney injury in post-cardiac surgery patients.Journal of mass spectrometry and advances in the clinical lab · 2022Article
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- Hyperglycemia on Admission Predicts Acute Kidney Failure and Renal Functional Recovery among Inpatients.Journal of clinical medicine · 2021Article
- Isoliquiritigenin attenuates septic acute kidney injury by regulating ferritinophagy-mediated ferroptosis.Renal failure · 2021Article
- Assessment of 17 clinically available renal biomarkers to predict acute kidney injury in critically ill patients.Journal of translational internal medicine · 2021Article
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Abstract
backgroundThe performance of urinary N-acetyl-β-D-glucosaminidase (uNAG) for the detection of acute kidney injury (AKI) was controversial. uNAG is positively correlated with blood glucose levels. Hyperglycemia is common in the critically ill adults. The influence of blood glucose levels on the accuracy of uNAG in AKI detection has not yet been reported. The present study evaluated the effect of blood glucose levels on the diagnostic accuracy of uNAG to detect AKI.
methodsA total of 1585 critically ill adults in intensive care units at three university hospitals were recruited in this prospective observational study. uNAG, serum glucose, and glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA1c) were measured at ICU admission. Patients were categorized based on the history of diabetes and blood glucose levels. The performance of uNAG to detect AKI in different groups was assessed by the area under the receiver operator characteristic curve.
resultsFour hundred and twelve patients developed AKI, of which 109 patients were severe AKI. uNAG was significantly correlated with the levels of serum glucose (P < 0.001) and HbA1c (P < 0.001). After stratification based on the serum glucose levels, no significant difference was observed in the AUC of uNAG in detecting AKI between any two groups (P > 0.05). Stratification for stress hyperglycemic demonstrated similar results.However, among non-diabetic patients, the optimal cut-off value of uNAG for detecting AKI was higher in stress hyperglycemic patients as compared to those without stress hyperglycemia.
conclusionsThe blood glucose levels did not significantly affect the performance of uNAG for AKI detection in critically ill adults. However, the optimal cut-off value of uNAG to detect AKIwas affected by stress hyperglycemia in non-diabetic patients.
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