...Shi-Nong Wang; Janine LaPage; Raimund Hirschberg Circumstantial evidence from clinical and pathologic correlations in patients with glomerular diseases and proteinuria suggest that glomerular protein ultrafiltration contributes to tubulointerstitial injury. A series of studies was performed...

...Matthew Weir Patients with hypertension and diabetes are frequently salt-sensitive. Consequently, increasing dietary salt intake results in a rise in systemic arterial pressure and an increase in proteinuria, as well as a progressive risk for developing renal injury. A difference in the renal...

... to the HSD group, was characterized by significantly lower creatinine clearance (24 ± 2 vs. 28 ± 2 ml/min) and higher proteinuria (2.9 ± 0.3 vs. 1.5 ± 0.2 g/day). Despite the presence of these risk factors for progression, and a similar control of blood pressure (the average of the mean arterial pressure...