Research Article

Serum Galactose-Deficient IgA1 Level Is Not Associated with Proteinuria in Children with IgA Nephropathy

Table 1

Clinical and demographic features of individual subjects (incident cases).

Subject Race/genderPresentationAge atestGFRUrinary protein/BMISBP/DBPSerum Gd-IgA1
biopsy(mL/min/1.73 m2)creatinine ratiopercentilepercentilelevel (units/mL)

A1C/MMicrohematuria,17.6591.179895–99/<50262
proteinuria
M2C/MIsolated proteinuria13.8781.242695–99/50–90889
M15C/FGross hematuria11.2801.31<1<50/50–901076
M16C/FGross hematuria8.7751.005750–90/<501073
M17C/MGross hematuria13.41083.101150–90/50–901534
M18C/FRecurrent gross hematuria12.51072.9617>99/<501155
M19AA/FGross hematuria,15.9492.9752<50, <503401
rapidly progressive
glomerulonephritis
M21AA/MIsolated proteinuria5.1943.5896<50, 50–90747
M22C/MGross hematuria,8.6751.334995–99/50–90803
acute kidney injury
M26AA/MGross hematuria8.81203.703090–95/50–90470
M28C/FGross hematuria,16.7631.364090–95/50–901110
proteinuria
M29C/MGross hematuria12.8960.9541>99/95–99659
M30C/MGross hematuria,15.0612.896390–95/50–90364
acute kidney injury
M31C/MGross hematuria16.2840.258950–90/50–902513
T2C/MMicrohematuria, proteinuria,17.8401.274495–99/50–90796
Chronic kidney
disease stage 3

AA: African-American; BMI: body mass index; C: Caucasian; estGFR, estimated glomerular filtration rate; DBP: diastolic blood pressure; SBP: systolic blood pressure; microhematuria, >5 RBC/high powered field.