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Physician and Patient Attitudes Toward Screening for Kidney Complications in Type 2 Diabetes: Is There A Role for Patient Self-Advocacy?
- Source :
- Integrative Diabetes and Cardiovascular Diseases. 2:72-74
- Publication Year :
- 2018
- Publisher :
- Gratis Open Access Publishers LLC, 2018.
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Abstract
- Urine protein screening rates among patients with type 2 diabetes are suboptimal despite evidence supporting its efficacy in preventing or slowing the progression of diabetic kidney disease (DKD) [1]. Testing of untimed urine specimens to quantify albumin (urine albumin-creatinine, or uACR)-the recommended screening test based on combination of simplicity, cost, and cardiovascular and renal prognostic value-is particularly underutilized, despite longitudinal efforts to improve awareness and screening among physicians [2].
Details
- ISSN :
- 26374587
- Volume :
- 2
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Integrative Diabetes and Cardiovascular Diseases
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........fb57634adb71b4988decbfe72b103f14