88 and 95% confidence interval (CI) 0.65–5.46). Conclusion: These results suggest that microalbuminuria

is not a good predictor of kidney disease progression in non-diabetic hypertensive patients. The number of patients loss to follow-up is a major limitation of this study. TANAKA AKIHITO, YAMAGUCHI MAKOTO, KATSUNO TAKAYUKI, KATO SAWAKO, TSUBOI NAOTAKE, SATO WAICHI, YASUDA YOSHINARI, ITO YASUHIKO, MARUYAMA SHOICHI, MATSUO SEIICHI Department of Nephrology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine Introduction: In “KDIGO 2012 Clinical Practice Guideline for the Evaluation,” CKD is categorized by albuminuria. Although proteinuria can also be used in Japanese CKD classification, the equivalency of proteinuria to albuminuria was not thoroughly validated. The aim of this study is to selleck compound clarify the threshold of proteinuria which corresponds to moderately increased albuminuria. Methods: We assessed stable 159 outpatients visiting Nephrology department (111 males and 48 females) from August to September in 2013. The amount of albuminuria and proteinuria were simultaneously measured in spot urine samples. Results: The mean age was 62.4 ± 16.8 years old. Their primary diseases

were chronic glomerulonephritis (n = 51), nephrosclerosis (n = 34), diabetic Inositol monophosphatase 1 nephropathy (n = 24), kidney transplantation recipient (n = 20), single kidney (n = 8), collagen disease PF-01367338 order (n = 5), polycystic kidney disease (n = 2), interstitial nephritis (n = 2), and others (n = 13). The albuminuria showed strong correlation with proteinuria. (Urine Albumin Creatinine Ratio; ACR = 0.6944 × Urine Protein Creatinine Ratio; PCR – 34.6349, r = 0.982, p < 0.01.) However, in moderately increased albuminuria (A2) category, the accuracy decreased. (ACR = 0.5030 × PCR + 6.2633, r = 0.860, p < 0.01.)

From Receiver Operatorating Characteristic; ROC curve, “113.6364 mg/g” was calculated the optimum threshold of proteinuria to detect moderately increased albuminuria (ACR > 30 mg/g). True positive fraction and false positive fraction were 0.892 and 0.083, respectively. PCR was under 150 mg/g in 24 patients with moderately increased albuminuria, while 12 patients out of these 24 patients would have been detectable if the definition of PCR to correspond ACR > 30 mg/g was 113 mg/g. Conclusion: There is a risk that using “150 mg/g” as a cut off level of proteinuria may fail to detect patients with moderately increased albuminuria. Our results suggest that a lower cut off level of proteinuria might be more useful to detect moderately increased albuminuria.