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Association of 14-day continuous glucose monitoring-derived postprandial hyperglycemic area with 6-month change in urinary albumin-to-creatinine ratio in patients with newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes mellitus.

Key takeaways

Adults newly diagnosed with type 2 diabetes wore a blood sugar sensor for 14 days, and doctors measured how high their sugar climbed after meals. Six months later they checked protein in the urine, using the albumin to creatinine ratio, an early warning sign of kidney damage. Bigger after meal sugar spikes went with more protein in the urine at six months, and the usual three month average test (HbA1c) did not capture those spikes. This was a look back study at a single center that screened 381 people, so it shows a link, not proof that the spikes caused the kidney change.

Who did this work

Yu T

Source

Article · PubMed, the drug frontier · 2026 Aug 19
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42688121/