Figure 2.
A prospective observational follow‐up study including a total of 216 Japanese type 2 diabetic patients with microalbuminuria was carried out to follow the change of stage of microalbuminuria for 6 years. The remission was defined as a shift of the albumin excretion rate (AER) from microalbuminuria to normoalbuminuria, and the regression was defined as 50% reduction in the AER from baseline.