Albuminuria, Lung Function Decline, and Risk of Incident COPD: The NHLBI Pooled Cohorts Study.

CONCLUSIONS: Albuminuria was associated with greater lung function decline, incident spirometry-defined COPD, and incident COPD-related events in a US population-based sample.
PMID: 30261735 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine - September 28, 2018 Category: Respiratory Medicine Authors: Oelsner EC, Balte PP, Grams ME, Cassano PA, Jacobs DR, Barr RG, Burkart KM, Kalhan R, Kronmal R, Loehr LR, O'Connor GT, Schwartz JE, Shlipak M, Tracy RP, Tsai MY, White W, Yende S Tags: Am J Respir Crit Care Med Source Type: research