Urinary podocalyxin, the novel biomarker for detecting early renal change in obesity.
CONCLUSION: Obese subjects without other diseases and with normal UPCR and GFR showed evidence of renal alteration through the detection of a higher number of PCX+ cells. Increasing BMI also resulted in higher number of PCX+ cells.
PMID: 25905599 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Journal of Nephrology)
