Familial, hemodynamic and metabolic factors in the predisposition to diabetic kidney disease.

doi:10.1038/ki.1994.56

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Familial, hemodynamic and metabolic factors in the predisposition to diabetic kidney disease.

Kidney international - 1 Feb 1994

Earle K, Viberti G C

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Proteinuric diabetic patients have an increased risk of cardiovascular disease and almost always have hypertension. In the early stages of diabetic renal disease (microalbuminuria) when renal function is well preserved, systemic arterial blood pressure is already elevated compared to insulin-depe...

Topics

Albuminuria
Antiporters
Diabetic Nephropathies
Genetic Predisposition to Disease
Hemodynamics
Humans
Insulin Resistance
Proteinuria

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