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SUBMITTER: Hosohata K
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8678839 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Hosohata Keiko K Matsuoka Hiroyuki H Kumagai Etsuko E
Journal of clinical hypertension (Greenwich, Conn.) 20210524 7
Previously, the authors reported the utility of urinary vanin-1 as an early biomarker of kidney injury in spontaneously hypertensive rats and in humans. However, little is known about whether urinary vanin-1 can be used to predict the clinical outcome. This study aimed to evaluate the predictive power of urinary vanin-1 based on kidney function decline in hypertensive patients. The authors measured urinary vanin-1 in 147 patients at the baseline and examined its association with the incidence of ...[more]