%0 Journal Article
%A Harris, Emily
%T Even Low Levels of Albumin in Urine Tied to Worsened Kidney Disease
%B JAMA
%D 2024
%R 10.1001/jama.2024.5925
%J JAMA
%V 331
%N 18
%P 1526-1526
%@ 0098-7484
%X 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.
%[ 5/20/2024
%U https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2024.5925