Albuminuria: population epidemiology and concordance in Australian children aged 11-12 years and their parents.
Nicholas G LarkinsSiah KimJohn B CarlinAnneke C GroblerDavid P BurgnerKatherine LangeJonathan C CraigMelissa WakePublished in: BMJ open (2019)
Albuminuria is common among Australian children and adults, which is of concern because it predicts risk for kidney and cardiovascular disease, and mortality. The weak concordance among intergenerational pairs for urine ACR suggests either that genetic heritability is low or that it becomes evident only at later offspring life stages.