Active clinical trials for "Proteinuria"

Phosphorus-based food additives are commonly used by food manufacturers for many applications, such as enhancing flavor, in ready-to-eat foods and beverages. While these additives can significantly increase an individual's daily phosphorus intake, little is known about the effect of dietary phosphorus on kidney health. In this study, the investigators will first lower baseline phosphorus intake to about 1000mg/d by educating participants to avoid foods with phosphorus additives. Then, participants will be randomized to a higher phosphorus period (~2gm/d) and a lower phosphorus period (~1gm/d) by providing unaltered, commercially-available food/beverage products with and without phosphorus additives. The investigators hypothesize that participants will have higher urine albumin excretion and fibroblast growth factor-23 (FGF-23) during the higher phosphorus period compared to the lower phosphorus period.

There is no data about the effects of Renin angiotensin system blockage (RAS) on FGF23 and ADMA levels in diabetic patients with proteinuria. The aim of this study was to find out whether the beneficial effects of RAS blockage in diabetic proteinuria has any relation with the alteration of ADMA and FGF-23 levels. We searched for the effects of ACE inhibitor ramipril on the clinical and laboratory parameters of diabetic patients with proteinuria.

The purpose of this study is to determine if the oral supplementation with curcumin reduces proteinuria in patients with chronic kidney disease regardless the ethiology.

Dipeptidyl peptidase 4 (DPP-4) inhibitors and sulfonylureas have been extensively used in the treatment of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). Although both medications effectively lower plasma glucose levels, differences may exist in their pharmacokinetics and effect on the kidney. In the context of diabetic kidney disease, DPP-4 inhibitors may confer renal protection through several putative mechanisms. In contrast, sulfonylureas are associated with weight gain and cardiac dysfunction, which may adversely influence kidney function. The investigators hypothesize that DPP-4 inhibitors and sulfonylureas may have a different effect on the diabetic kidney. This study compares the effect of DPP-4 inhibitors and sulfonylureas on urinary albumin excretion in patients with newly diagnosed T2DM.

The study is designed to evaluate the proportion of patients with tenofovir induced proteinuria that will resolve their proteinuria when the tenofovir containing nucleoside/nucleotide backbone is switched to a raltegravir backbone. Common HIV treatment regimens contain nucleoside/nucleotide combinations that may have long-term side effects including nephrotoxicity. Switching these backbones out for an integrase inhibitor based regimen has not been systematically evaluated. Hypothesis: Proteinuria developing during treatment with tenofovir improves or resolves when tenofovir is switched out with raltegravir. Switching to a nuc- sparing regimen, containing raltegravir and a boosted protease inhibitor in patients without preexisting protease inhibitor mutations is safe and does not lead to virologic failure

The purpose of this study is to investigate whether turmeric is effective in improvement of diabetic nephropathy and in decrease in the amount of proteinuria and cytokine levels.

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effects of Crestor (rosuvastatin) and (Lipitor) atorvastatin on urinary protein excretion over 1 year in patients with Type 1 or 2 diabetes with moderate proteinuria and hypercholesterolaemia.

The main purpose of the study is find whether the addition of aldosterone antagonist, spironolactone to dual renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system blockade involving angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitor and AT-1 angiotensin II receptor blocker leads to the reduction of proteinuria, main prognostic marker of chronic kidney disease progression.

Chronic kidney disease (CKD)has become a significant health problem worldwide. Strategies to decrease the rate of progression of this disease and reduce the number of patients needing dialysis or renal transplantation are urgently needed. In this study we wish to compare the effect of dual blockade of renin-angiotensin system (ACE inhibitors plus angiotensin II receptor blocker) compared to the effect of ACE inhibitor monotherapy in patients with diabetic chronic nephropathy.

The primary objective of this study is to determine if trandolapril/verapamil (Tarka®) is superior to amlodipine/benazepril (Lotrel®) in reduction of albuminuria in hypertensive subjects with Type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) and diabetic nephropathy