Table 2.
Serum uric acid predicts the development of diabetic nephropathy
| Location | Number | Type of diabetes |
Follow- up period |
Outcome | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Denmark | 263 | Type 1 | 18 years | Macroalbuminuria | [12] |
| USA | 443 | Type 1 | 6 years | Coronary atherosclerosis |
[85] |
| USA | 355 | Type 1 | 6 years | Early GFR loss | [9] |
| USA | 324 | Type 1 | 6 years | Albuminuria | [10] |
| USA | 652 | Type 1 | 6 years | Rapid GFR decline Microalbuminuria |
[86] |
| USA | 1,449 | Type 2 | 5 years | Incident CKD | [13] |
| UK | 270 | Type 2 | 8 years | eGFR decline | [14] |
| USA | 534 | Type 1 | 8 years | Early GFR decline | [87] |