NGAL as an Early Predictive Marker of Diabetic Nephropathy in Children and Young Adults with Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus.
Nektaria Papadopoulou-MarketouAlexandra MargeliIoannis PapassotiriouGeorge P ChrousosChristina Kanaka-GantenbeinJeanette WahlbergPublished in: Journal of diabetes research (2017)
NGAL may be proposed as a biomarker of early renal dysfunction even in nonalbuminuric T1D patients, since it was strongly associated with renal function decline and increasing systolic arterial pressure even at prehypertensive range in people with T1D, in a broad age range.