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. 2018 Mar 27;6:e4522. doi: 10.7717/peerj.4522

Table 2. The spectrum of biopsy-proven renal disease in patients with NDRD.

The table shows the incidence of specific pathological diagnosis in patients with NDRD and NDRD + DN.

NDRD NDRD + DN
Membraneous nephropathy 323 (39.3%) 34 (33.7%)
IgA nephropathy 147 (17.9%) 32 (31.7%)a
Minimal change disease 110 (13.4%) 0a
Mesangial proliferative glomerulonephritis 67 (8.2%) 0a
Focal segmental glomerulosclerosis 46 (5.6%) 1 (1.0%)a
Acute tubular necrosis 15 (1.8%) 1 (1.0%)
Tubulointerstitial nephropathy 15 (1.8%) 12 (11.9%)a
Hypertensive renal disease 14 (1.7%) 18 (17.8%)a
HBV-associated nephritis 13 (1.6%) 0
Lupus nephritis 12 (1.5%) 0
Henoch-Schonlein Purpura nephritis 12 (1.5%) 1 (1.0%)
ANCA-associated vasculitis 7 (0.9%) 0
Proliferative sclerotic glomerulonephritis 5 (0.6%) 0
Membraneous proliferative glomerulonephritis 4 (0.5%) 0
Obesity associated nephropathy 4 (0.5%) 0
Thin basement membrane nephropathy 4 (0.5%) 0
Endocapillary proliferative glomerulonephritis 2 (0.2%) 0
Amyloidosis-AL subtype 2 (0.2%) 0
Amyloidosis 2 (0.2%) 0
Mesangial nodular nephropathy 2 (0.2%) 0
Focal glomerulonephritis 1 (0.1%) 0
Crescentic glomerulonephritis 1 (0.1%) 0
Immunotactoid glomerulopathy 1 (0.1%) 0
Microscopic polyangiitis 1 (0.1%) 0
Eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis 1 (0.1%) 0
Light chain deposition disease 1 (0.1%) 0
Fibrillary glomerulopathy 0 2 (2.0%)a
Others 10 (1.2%) 0
Total 822 101

Notes.

Values are expressed as frequencies and percentages (n(%)).

NDRD
non-diabetic renal disease
DN
diabetic nephropathy

Differences were analyzed by χ2 test or Fisher’s Exact tests, if appropriate.

a

P < 0.05 for comparison of NDRD + DN versus NDRD.