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TY  - JOUR
AU  - Harris, Emily
T1  - Even Low Levels of Albumin in Urine Tied to Worsened Kidney Disease
PY  - 2024
Y1  - 2024/05/14
DO  - 10.1001/jama.2024.5925
JO  - JAMA
JA  - JAMA
VL  - 331
IS  - 18
SP  - 1526
EP  - 1526
SN  - 0098-7484
AB  - For decades, researchers characterized normal albuminuria as a urine albumin-creatinine ratio of less than 30 mg/g. That has led some clinicians to believe that patients with lower ratios don’t need additional treatment. But a new study in Annals of Internal Medicine challenges that assumption by showing that even low levels of albuminuria are a risk factor for kidney failure in people with chronic kidney disease.People with urine albumin-creatinine ratios of 15 mg/g or more had about a 5% to 6% greater absolute risk of kidney failure than those who had ratios of 5 to less than 15 mg/g and of 0 to 5 mg/g, respectively. The findings are based on data from more than 1600 participants across 7 US centers.
Y2  - 5/20/2024
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2024.5925
ER  -