Urinary angiotensin-converting enzyme activity in type 2 diabetes mellitus: its relationship to diabetic nephropathy

Angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) acti

Angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) activity levels in insulin-independent diabetes mellitus and effect of ACE levels on diabetic patients with nephropathy

✍ Bilal Üstündağ; Halit Canatan; Nadire Çi̇nkilinç; İhsan Hali̇feoğlu; İ. Halil Ba 📂 Article 📅 2000 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 148 KB 👁 2 views

Involvement of complications is considered to be one of the major factors in the prognosis of diabetes mellitus (DM). Recent studies indicate that most diabetic complications such as nephropathy and hypertension are vascularoriginated. Renin±angiotensin involvement, especially changes in ACE activi