Chronic kidney disease: ACR versus UAE

Nature Reviews Nephrology 11, 566 (2015). doi:10.1038/nrneph.2015.137 The KDIGO 2012 guidelines state that albuminuria should be assessed using the albumin–creatinine ratio (ACR) rather than by monitoring 24 h urinary albumin excretion (UAE). To assess the importance of misclassification when evaluating albuminuria by ACR in an early morning urine sample instead of 24
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