Urinary monocyte chemotactic protein 1: marker of renal function decline in diabetic and nondiabetic proteinuric renal disease.

Conclusion: Urinary MCP-1 is a marker of renal function decline in diabetic and nondiabetic proteinuric renal disease, independent of and additive to proteinuria.
PMID: 20437404 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Journal of Nephrology)