Low Ankle-Brachial Index Is Associated with Early-Stage Chronic Kidney Disease in Type 2 Diabetic Patients Independent of Albuminuria

• Xuehong Dong ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Xuehong Dong, Dingting Wu

  Affiliation Departments of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, P. R. China

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• Dingting Wu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Xuehong Dong, Dingting Wu

  Affiliation Departments of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, P. R. China

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• Chengfang Jia,

  Affiliation Departments of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, P. R. China

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• Yu Ruan,

  Affiliation Departments of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, P. R. China

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• Xiaocheng Feng,

  Affiliation Departments of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, P. R. China

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• Guoxing Wang,

  Affiliation Departments of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, P. R. China

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• Jun Liu,

  Affiliation Departments of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, P. R. China

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• Yi Shen,

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Health Statistics School of Public Health, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, P. R. China

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• Hong Li ,

  * E-mail: lihongheyi@126.com (HL); lilx@sjtu.edu.cn (LXL)

  Affiliation Departments of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, P. R. China

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• Lianxi Li

  * E-mail: lihongheyi@126.com (HL); lilx@sjtu.edu.cn (LXL)

  Affiliation Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Affiliated Sixth People’s Hospital, Shanghai, P. R. China

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