查看文章

Methods Patients. Fifteen normal control subjects (five males, ten females), ranging in age from 21 to 52 years (mean, 33.9), and 29 insulin-dependent diabetic patients [13](15 males, 14 females), ranging in age between 6 and 60 years (mean, 42.6) were studied. All normal subjects were healthy and normotensive without signs of nephropathy and were not receiving any medication. Diabetic patients were subdivided according to their urinary excretion rates of albumin (Ualb) in three groups: