Diabetic nephropathy screening

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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1];Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Aarti Narayan, M.B.B.S [2]

Overview

Microalbumin levels in the urine is an excellent tool to look for early damage to kidneys secondary to diabetes. Albumin is a protein found normally in the serum, but it gets completely absorbed from the renal tubules when it is filtered into the nephron from the glomerulus. Hence, a damaged nephron will not reabsorb the albumin filtered by the glomerulus and it appears in the urine.

Screening

  • Screening for nephropathy in diabetes should begin at the time of diagnosis of type II diabetes mellitus, since about 7% of patients may have damaged kidneys even in early stages of diabetes.
  • Minute levels of albumin (microalbuminuria) in the urine are not detectable with routine urine protein dipsticks.
  • The incidence of diabetic nephropathy may particularly increase in patients with poor glycemic control, systemic hypertension and hyperlipidemia.
  • If microalbuminuria is not present, the test must be repeated annually for both type I and type II diabetes mellitus patients.
  • There are two ways to screen patients for diabetic nephropathy:
    • Spot urine sample test
    • 24 hour and timed urine collection
  • The spot urine sample collection is preferred as it is convenient to perform and has a high sensitivity as well as specificity. The 24 hour and timed urine collection method is cumbersome and is inaccurate because of improper urine collection techniques and timing.