Frequency of proteinuria in type 2 diabetes mellitus seen at a diabetes centre in southern India

The frequency of proteinuria was assessed in a cohort of 1848 diabetic pati ents attending a diabetes centre in south India, A total of 127 (6.9%) pati ents had evidence of macroproteinuria and 49 (2.5%) patients had microprote inuria. Thus overall 9.4% of patients had diabetes related proteinuria. In addition, 70 patients (3.8%) had evidence of proteinuria with no evidence o f retinopathy. The frequency of both microproteinuria and macroproteinuria increased linearly with duration of diabetes. Multiple logistic regression analysis showed that duration of diabetes, serum creatinine, and glycated h aemoglobin were risk factors for macroproteinuria.