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August 9, 1992Diabetic Medicine

Overall mortality rate was significantly linked with the presence of macroalbuminuria (26% vs 5% in normoalbuminuric patients).

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Population

290 patients with Type 2 diabetes mellitus in general practice

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Cohort

Follow-up

3 years

Authors

HSH. StieglerESEberhard StandlKSK.-D. Schulz

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Overview

Macroalbuminuria flags higher mortality risk in T2D; hypothesis-generating for targeted vascular interventions.

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Population
290 patients with Type 2 diabetes mellitus in general practice
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Outcome
Prevalence of albuminuria and its relationship to macrovascular disease, pre-existing vascular risk factors, and mortality ratehard clinical

Macroalbuminuria serves as a marker for peripheral vascular disease and a predictor of macrovascular mortality in patients with Type 2 diabetes.

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Stiegler et al. (1992) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a1fe2a4190e6e8d8e430ee9https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1464-5491.1992.tb01861.x
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