Original articleDiabetic kidney disease: Is there a non-albuminuric phenotype in type 2 diabetic patients?Enfermedad renal diabética: ¿hay un fenotipo de no albuminuria en diabéticos tipo 2?

Background Albuminuria was widely considered as the first clinical sign of diabetic kidney disease (DKD), which is why it has traditionally been used as a screening test for DKD. However, increasing evidence has shown that a significant number of type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) patients have a decreased glomerular filtration rate (GFR) without significant albuminuria, known as non-albuminuric DKD (NA-DKD). The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence and the demographic and clinical characteristics of patients with NA-DKD.