Periostin as a Tissue and Urinary Biomarker of Renal Injury in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus

Abstract

The study indicates that increased urine periostin levels can be detected in patients with type 2 diabetes before the onset of significant albuminuria. Urinary periostin is an associated renal derangement in patients with established diabetic nephropathy and it may be used as an early marker of diabetic renal injury.