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β2-Microglobulin and Cystatin C in Type 2 Diabetes: Assessment of Diabetic Nephropathy

DOI

66

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2004

Year

Saliha Aksun, Batuhan Özmen, I. Mutaf, Nevbahar Turgan, Sara Habif, K. Kumanlioğluc
Experimental and Clinical Endocrinology & Diabetes

Abstract

Increased Cys C and beta2-microglobulin in diabetics may be early indicators of incipient DN. The diagnostic accuracies of Cys C and beta2-microglobulin are superior to that of serum creatinine in distinguishing between mild and moderately reduced GFR.