Relation of reduction in urinary albumin excretion to ten-year cardiovascular mortality in patients with type 2 diabetes and systemic hypertension
The American Journal of Cardiology, 06/15/2012
Estacio RO et al. – These data support current guideline recommendations to screen for urinary albumin excretion (UAE) in all patients with type 2 diabetes, even in the absence of nephropathy, and suggest that serial UAE measurements even after the initiation of antihypertensive therapy has prognostic value independent of traditional cardiovascular risk factors.



