Kidney Function During and After Withdrawal of Long-Term Irbesartan Treatment in Patients With Type 2 Diabetes and Microalbuminuria
Response to Kaiser, Florack, and Sawicki
- Steen Andersen, MD1,
- Jens Bröchner-Mortensen, MD, DMSC2 and
- Hans-Henrik Parving, MD, DMSC13
- 1Steno Diabetes Center, Gentofte, Denmark
- 2Department of Clinical Physiology, Aalborg Sygehus, Aalborg, Denmark
- 3Faculty of Health Science, University of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark
- Address correspondence to Steen Andersen, MD, Steno Diabetes Center, Niels Steensens Vej 2, DK-2820 Gentofte, Denmark. E-mail: stan{at}steno.dk
We thank Kaiser, Florack, and Sawicki (1) for their interest in our article (2). The glomerular filtration rate (GFR) values in Fig. 2 represent the mean values of measurements carried out at the specified visits. However, the rates of decline in GFR cannot be correctly estimated from Fig. 2, but are instead calculated from paired observations of changes in GFR and specified in the results section. GFR values at baseline were available …
