openalexFrontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine2026-07-24
Urinary nephrin as an early biomarker of podocyte dysfunction in essential hypertension: a stage-stratified study from Bukhara, Uzbekistan
Essential hypertension is a leading cause of chronic kidney disease, but conventional renal markers detect injury only after substantial nephron loss. Urinary nephrin, a slit-diaphragm protein released during podocyte injury, has been proposed as an early biomarker of hypertensiv…