“…Although our diabetic subject had different average age, duration of disease, race and socioeconomic status, the result had high consistency with other studies and also demonstrated that NGAL and KIM-1 appeared earlier in nephropathy. 15,16,27,28,31,[35][36][37][38][39] Sensitivity and specificity of urine NGAL and KIM-1 in early diagnostic diabetic nephropathy of our study were similar to other researches. 39,40 Kapoula et al had showed the pooled sensitivity and specificity among the different settings analyzed ranged from 0.42 (95% CI, 0.22-0.66) to 1.00 (95% CI, 0.99-1.00) and 0.72 (95% CI, 0.62-0.80) to 0.98 (95% CI, 0.50-1.00) in T2DM patients, respectively.…”