Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Diabetic nephropathy is a clinical syndrome characterized by overt proteinuria and decreased renal function in the course of diabetes mellitus. The earliest symptom is the presence of albuminuria, but a decrease in glomerular filtration rate(GFR) has been observed in patients without albuminuria. In our study, it was aimed to investigate the presence and prevalence of nonalbuminuric diabetic kidney disease observed in patients with type 2 diabetes, and to determi...