Effects of retinopathy and chronic kidney disease on long-term mortality in type 2 diabetic inpatients with normal urinary albumin or protein: a retrospective cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Normoalbuminuric chronic kidney disease (NA-CKD) is recognised as a distinct phenotype of diabetic kidney disease, but the role of diabetic retinopathy (DR) in predicting long-term mortality among these patients remains unclear. Here, we aimed to investigate the effects of DR and CKD on mortality in type 2 diabetic patients with normoalbuminuria.

Design

We conducted this study as a retrospective cohort study.

Setting

We collected clinical information from the medical records of a public medical centre in central Taiwan.

Participants

Patients with type 2 diabetes (n=665) who were hospitalised due to poor glucose control were consecutively enrolled and followed for a median of 6.7 years (IQR 4.1‒9.6 years). Patients with either urinary protein excretion

SUBMITTER: Li YH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6067336 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature