title: Aggravation of albuminuria by metabolic syndrome in type 2 diabetic Asian subjects.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  We investigated the relationship of urinary albumin excretion (UAE) to metabolic syndrome and type 2 diabetes in Asian.
  
  
  METHODS
  A total of 446 subjects (187 without diabetes and 259 with type 2 diabetes) were enrolled in this study. The components of metabolic syndrome, high sensitivity C-reactive protein (hs-CRP) and UAE were assessed. Based on metabolic syndrome and diabetes status, participants were categorized into one of the following groups: neither metabolic syndrome nor diabetes (MS-DM-), metabolic syndrome without diabetes (MS+DM-), diabetes without metabolic syndrome (MS-DM+) and both metabolic syndrome and diabetes (MS+DM+).
  
  
  RESULTS
  The UAE in the MS+DM- group was higher than that in the MS-DM- group (P<0.001) and lower than that in the MS+DM+ group (P<0.001), but not significantly different from that in the MS-DM+ group (P=0.349). The trend of increasing UAE in these four groups was independent of hs-CRP.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  UAE was lowest in subjects with neither metabolic syndrome nor diabetes and highest in subjects with both metabolic syndrome and type 2 diabetes; however, there was no significant difference between the metabolic syndrome alone group and the type 2 diabetes alone group.
authors.affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan.
authors.forename: I-Te
authors.initials: IT
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Chien-Ning
authors.initials: CN
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.forename: Wen-Jane
authors.initials: WJ
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Hong-Shen
authors.initials: HS
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Wayne H-H
authors.initials: WH
authors.lastname: Sheu
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000419:Albuminuria / Q000097:blood / Q000150:complications*; D044466:Asian People; D002097:C-Reactive Protein / Q000378:metabolism; D003924:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 / Q000150:complications* / Q000652:urine; D003928:Diabetic Nephropathies / Q000097:blood / Q000652:urine; D005260:Female; D006442:Glycated Hemoglobin / Q000378:metabolism; D006801:Humans; D008055:Lipids / Q000097:blood; D008297:Male; D024821:Metabolic Syndrome / Q000097:blood / Q000150:complications* / Q000652:urine; D008875:Middle Aged; D013624:Taiwan
chemical_list: D002097:C-Reactive Protein; D006442:Glycated Hemoglobin; D008055:Lipids