Pitfalls of the urinary albumin creatinine ratio in detection of early diabetic kidney disease

Irish Medical Journal

Volumn 108, Issue 4, 2015, Pages

  Garrahy, Aoife ^a   Tormey, W P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL GALWAY   (Ireland)

^b BEAUMONT HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; CREATININE; BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

DIABETES MELLITUS; DIABETIC KIDNEY DISEASE; DIABETIC NEPHROPATHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; EDITORIAL; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HUMAN; KIDNEY DISEASE; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY FUNCTION; MICROALBUMINURIA; PROTEINURIA; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; ALBUMINURIA; DIABETIC NEPHROPATHIES; URINE;

ALBUMINURIA; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CREATININE; DIABETIC NEPHROPATHIES; HUMANS;

EID: 84930696025     PISSN: 03323102     EISSN: 03323102     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Editorial

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