Serum bilirubin: a simple routine surrogate marker of the progression of chronic kidney disease.

CONCLUSIONS: Our results suggest that there is significant hypobilirubinemia in CKD, especially with increasing severity and co-existing diabetes mellitus. This finding has importance in the clinical setting, as assay of simple routine biochemical parameters such as serum bilirubin may help in predicting the early progression of CKD and more so in diabetic CKD. PMID: 27231984 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: British Journal of Biomedical Science - Category: Laboratory Medicine Tags: Br J Biomed Sci Source Type: research