Comparison of Patients with Hospital-Recorded Nephrotic Syndrome and Patients with Nephrotic Proteinuria and Hypoalbuminemia: A Nationwide Study in Denmark.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Registry-based studies of nephrotic syndrome (NS) may only include a subset of patients with biochemical features of NS. To address this, we compared patients with laboratory-recorded nephrotic proteinuria and hypoalbuminemia to patients with hospital-recorded NS.

Methods

We identified adult patients with first-time hospital-recorded NS (inpatients, outpatients, or emergency-room visitors) in the Danish National Patient Registry and compared them with adults with first-time recorded nephrotic proteinuria and hypoalbuminemia in Danish laboratory databases during 2004-2018, defining the date of admission or laboratory findings as the index date. We characterized these cohorts by demographics, comorbidity, medication use, and laboratory and histopathologic findings.<

SUBMITTER: Vestergaard SV 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8786138 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature