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SUBMITTER: Afkarian M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3559486 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Afkarian Maryam M Sachs Michael C MC Kestenbaum Bryan B Hirsch Irl B IB Tuttle Katherine R KR Himmelfarb Jonathan J de Boer Ian H IH
Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : JASN 20130129 2
Type 2 diabetes associates with increased risk of mortality, but how kidney disease contributes to this mortality risk among individuals with type 2 diabetes is not completely understood. Here, we examined 10-year cumulative mortality by diabetes and kidney disease status for 15,046 participants in the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES III) by linking baseline data from NHANES III with the National Death Index. Kidney disease, defined as urinary albumin/creatinine ra ...[more]