Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Affiliated Sixth People's Hospital, Shanghai Clinical Centre for Diabetes, Shanghai Diabetes Institute, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Diabetes Mellitus, Shanghai Key Clinical Centre for Metabolic Disease, PR China. Electronic address: [Email]
To investigate whether hyper-uricaemia and decreased urinary uric acid excretion (UUAE) are associated with increased risk of chronic kidney disease (CKD), and whether the coexistence of hyper-uricaemia and low UUAE further increases CKD risk in type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM).