Estimated albumin excretion rate versus urine albumin-creatinine ratio for the assessment of albuminuria: A diagnostic test study from the prevention of renal and vascular endstage disease (PREVEND) study

American Journal of Kidney Diseases

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 415-421

  Abdelmalek, Joseph A ^a,b   Gansevoort, Ron T ^c   Lambers Heerspink, Hiddo J ^c   Ix, Joachim H ^a,b,d   Rifkin, Dena E ^a,b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b VA SAN DIEGO HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

albumin creatinine ratio; Albuminuria; creatinine excretion

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN-CREATININE RATIO; ALBUMINURIA; CREATININE EXCRETION;

ADULT; AGED; ALBUMINURIA; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CREATININE; FEMALE; GLOMERULAR FILTRATION RATE; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROC CURVE;

EID: 84894437969     PISSN: 02726386     EISSN: 15236838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.ajkd.2013.10.061     Document Type: Article

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