Population
690 Japanese subjects participating in an annual physical and laboratory examination program.
Design
Cross-sectional
Authors
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Highlights microalbuminuria burden and SBP/glucose associations; cross-sectional design leaves causal and interventional implications open.
In a Japanese cohort, microalbuminuria is present in approximately 13% of individuals and is independently associated with elevated systolic blood pressure and fasting plasma glucose.
Tomura et al. (1999) studied this question.
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