Why the study?
Does proteinuria increase cardiovascular mortality in adults aged 30 years or older without a history of cardiovascular or renal disease?
Does proteinuria increase cardiovascular mortality in adults aged 30 years or older without a history of cardiovascular or renal disease?
Proteinuria is an independent risk factor for cardiovascular death in the general Japanese population without pre-existing cardiovascular or renal disease.
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Proteinuria may flag higher cardiovascular mortality risk despite normal creatinine; extends observational data in disease-free adults but leaves causal questions open.
Tanihara et al. (2005) studied this question.
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