TY - JOUR AU - Fayed, Ahmed AU - Soliman, Ahmed AU - Badr, Mohamed AU - Abdelmoniem, Mohamed AU - Drwesh, Hesham AU - Fakher, Mohamed AU - Soliman, Mahmoud Salem PY - 2020 DA - 2020/04/29 TI - Fasting insulin level and Homatest IR as predictors of acute kidney injury in critically ill patients JO - Bulletin of the National Research Centre SP - 64 VL - 44 IS - 1 AB - Kidney dysfunction is a major cause of morbidity and mortality whose prevalence, mainly because of population ageing, is rising worldwide. Also the epidemics of abnormalities clustering with insulin resistance might have played a role in increasing the prevalence of kidney dysfunction. Insulin resistance has been associated with increased risk of cardiovascular events and mortality in multiple large community-based cohort studies. SN - 2522-8307 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s42269-020-00326-8 DO - 10.1186/s42269-020-00326-8 ID - Fayed2020 ER -