Prevalence of micralbuminuria in diabetics

ABSTRACT

Our study of 500 patients screened for microalbuminuria at the diabetic centers showed that 64 patients [12.8%] had microalbuminuria. Of these 64 patients, only 7 [about 9%] had type-1 diabetes while the remaining 57 [about 91%] had type-II diabetes. Most of the patients [64.6%] were young and were between the ages of 31 to 50 years, and in most [83.4%] the duration of diabetes was less than 10 years. Amongst the 64 microalbuminuric diabetic patients, 68.75% had microalbuminuria even when the duration of diabetes was less than 10 years. A large number of our patients [90.6%] had microalbuminuria between 20 to 100 micro g/min. These facts emphasize the need to make efforts to aggressively treat these patients at risk of nephropathy at a time where process may still be reversible