Prevalence and determinants of diabetic nephropathy in Korea: Korea national health and nutrition examination survey.

Compared to previous studies with Korean patients with diabetes, which reported that male sex, poor glycemic control, high blood pressure, diabetes duration, presence of diabetic retinopathy, homocysteine levels, BMI, and fasting insulin level were associated with an increased risk of microalbuminuria [ 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 , 15 , 16 ], blood pressure was the only significant variable in the present study, and HbA1c was only a marginally significant determinant.

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There was a significant trend for increased albuminuria with increasing age in subjects without diabetes ( P for trend <0.0001), whereas the trend was not statistically significant in subjects with diabetes ( P for trend=0.076) ( Fig. 2 ).

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