@article{10.1001/jama.2024.5925,
    author = {Harris, Emily},
    title = "{Even Low Levels of Albumin in Urine Tied to Worsened Kidney Disease}",
    journal = {JAMA},
    volume = {331},
    number = {18},
    pages = {1526-1526},
    year = {2024},
    month = {05},
    abstract = "{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.}",
    issn = {0098-7484},
    doi = {10.1001/jama.2024.5925},
    url = {https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2024.5925},
    eprint = {/journals/jama/articlepdf/2818000/jama\_harris\_2024\_ib\_240088\_1714681251.79233.pdf},
}