Clinical and Laboratory Observations on So-Called “Kidney Threshold for Glucose”

Effect of Diabetes and Insulin on the Maximum Capacity of the Renal Tubules to Reabsorb Glucose 1

“…A number of observers have noted that diabetic patients sometimes may have little or no glycosuria in spite of hyperglycemia (1,2). Mirsky and Nelson (2) have attributed this phenomenon to decreased glomerular filtration rate, especially among elderly patients, or to an increase in the glucose reabsorptive capacity of the tubules.…”