Due to the unfavorable prognosis of advanced stages of diabetic nephropathy (DN), the ideal approach is to identify renal involvement as early as possible. It is recommended to measure urinary albumin excretion (UAE) annually, in random urine samples, in order to detect the stages of DN [microalbuminuria (UAE 17-174 mg/l or 30-300 mg albumin/g of creatinine) and macroalbuminuria (> 174 mg/l or > 300 mg/g)]. However, it has been suggested that UAE levels below the threshold of consensus could already […]

Type 1 diabetes mellitus (DM) is linked to micro and macrovascular long-term complications. We proposed to study the association between diabetic nephropathy (DN) and retinopathy (DR), and of these complications with clinical-laboratory variables in type 1 DM patients followed in a universitary center. It was a transversal study through medical registry analysis. We studied 81 patients; prevalence of DR was 21.0% and of DN was 35.8%, there was association between the complications. Carriers of DN and DR have greater DM […]