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Associations between overnight urinary albumin excretion rate and prevalent coronary heart disease and its major risk factors were examined in a cross-sectional study of 141 Type 2 (non-insulin-dependent) diabetic patients. Mean albumin excretion rate was higher in men (geometric mean 13.5 μg/min; 95% confidence interval 10.3–17.6) than women (7.5 μg/min; 5.7–9.8, p<0.01). In diabetic men and women mean albumin excretion rate was higher in those with electrocardiographic and/or symptomatic evidence of coronary heart disease than in those without (men, 23.1 μg/ min; 95% confidence interval 13.7–39.0 versus 10.6 μg/min; 7.9–14.2, p<0.01, women, 13.7 μg/min; 8.0–23.5 versus 5.4 μg/min; 4.2–6.8, p<0.01). Multiple logistic regression analysis was used to allow for confounding between variables. In the diabetic group as a whole, raised albumin excretion rate (p<0.001), gender (p<0.05) and systolic blood pressure (p=0.06) entered the “best” model for coronary heart disease prediction. In women, albumin excretion rate alone (p<0.01) and in men albumin excretion rate (p<0.01) and age (p=0.05) entered the “best” models. We conclude that albumin excretion rate is significantly associated with coronary heart disease morbidity after taking into account the confounding effects of raised blood pressure and other cardiovascular risk factors.
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Mattock, M.B., Keen, H., Viberti, G.C. et al. Coronary heart disease and urinary albumin excretion rate in Type 2 (non-insulin-dependent) diabetic patients. Diabetologia 31, 82–87 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00395552
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