Microalbuminuria in type 1 diabetes frequently regresses, challenging the notion that it inevitably leads to progressive nephropathy.
Frequent regression of microalbuminuria in patients with type 1 diabetes indicates that elevated urinary albumin excretion does not imply inexorably progressive nephropathy. Identification of the multiple determinants of the regression of microalbuminuria has implications for current theories about the mechanisms of early diabetic nephropathy.
Perkins et al. (Thu,) studied this question.