Associations of urinary epidermal growth factor and monocyte chemotactic protein-1 with kidney involvement in patients with diabetic kidney disease

Abstract

In Chinese patients, urinary EGF/MCP-1 was negatively associated with the occurrence of DKD. Moreover, uEGF/MCP-1 had a better ability to predict the composite endpoint and correlated more closely with kidney function decline in advanced DKD as compared with uEGF/Cr or uMCP-1/Cr alone.