Markers of Glomerular and Tubular Damage in the Early Stage of Kidney Disease in Type 2 Diabetic Patients

Figure 3

The associations between increase in urine albumin/creatinine ratio (uACR) over one-year observation and urine NGAL concentrations (a), urine NGAL/creatinine ratios (b), urine KIM-1/creatinine ratios (c), and urine IgG concentrations (d) among 29 patients for whom retrospective data were available. Data are shown as median, interquartile range (box), nonoutlier range (whiskers), and outliers (points). LOD indicates the limit of detection of urine IgG; values in Mann–Whitney’s test are shown on the graphs.

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