Journal article
High rates of albuminuria but not of low eGFR in Urban Indigenous Australians: The DRUID Study
LJ Maple-Brown, J Cunningham, AM Hodge, T Weeramanthri, T Dunbar, PD Lawton, PZ Zimmet, SJ Chadban, KR Polkinghorne, JE Shaw, K O'Dea
BMC Public Health | BMC | Published : 2011
Abstract
Background: Indigenous Australians have an incidence of end stage kidney disease 8-10 times higher than non-Indigenous Australians. The majority of research studies concerning Indigenous Australians have been performed in rural or remote regions, whilst the majority of Indigenous Australians actually live in urban settings. We studied prevalence and factors associated with markers of kidney disease in an urban Indigenous Australian cohort, and compared results with those for the general Australian population. Methods. 860 Indigenous adult participants of the Darwin Region Urban Indigenous Diabetes (DRUID) Study were assessed for albuminuria (urine albumin-creatinine ratio2.5 mg/mmol males, 3..
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Funding Acknowledgements
The authors gratefully acknowledge the support of DRUID study participants, study staff, members of the Indigenous Steering Group, and partner organisations. The DRUID Study was funded by the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC Project Grant #236207), with additional support from the Australian Government Department of Employment and Workplace Relations, the Clive and Vera Ramaciotti Foundation, the Vincent Fairfax Family Foundation, the International Diabetes Institute (AusDiab Partnership), and Bayer HealthCare. The DRUID Study is an in-kind project of the Cooperative Research Centre for Aboriginal Health. LMB had a NHMRC Scholarship 2003-5 and is supported by NHMRC Training Fellowship (#605837), NHMRC #320860 and the Centre of Clinical Research Excellence in Clinical Science in Diabetes, University of Melbourne. JC was supported by a NHMRC Career Development Award (#283310) and a NHMRC Research Fellowship (#545200). AH is supported by NHMRC Fellowship (#520316). Thank you to Dr Jaquelyne Hughes for comments on the manuscript. Funding sources played no role in the study design, in the analysis and interpretation of the data, in the writing of the manuscript, or in the decision to submit the manuscript for publication.