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Potential role of serum copeptin among smoker T2DM patients with emphasis to ACE I/D gene polymorphism predicting DN.
Scientific reports - 6 Jun 2024
Taha Mona Mohamed, Zakaria Mohamed Ahmed Yehia, Eisa Yasmine Hamdy, Rashed Maysa Hatem
Abstract excerpt
Diabetic nephropathy represents one of the main long-term complications in T2DM patients. Cigarette smoking represents one of modifiable renal risk factors to kidney damage due to lead (Pb) exposure in these patients. Our goal is to investigate serum copeptin and Kidney injury molecule-1 (KIM-1) and urinary lead (UPb) in type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) patients even smokers and non-smokers groups and compared to...
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