Smoking and the Kidney

Diet, Lifestyle, and the Risk of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in Women

2001 • 2,812 citations

Blood Pressure and End-Stage Renal Disease in Men

1996 • 1,639 citations

Norepinephrine and Epinephrine Release and Adrenergic Mediation of Smoking-Associated Hemodynamic and Metabolic Events

1976 • 1,114 citations

Obituary. Rupert Samuel Bruce Pearson.

1974 • 760 citations

Microalbuminuria is common, also in a nondiabetic, nonhypertensive population, and an independent indicator of cardiovascular risk factors and cardiovascular morbidity

2001 • 636 citations

Nephropathy in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes

2002 • 592 citations

A smoking–dependent risk of coronary artery disease associated with a polymorphism of the endothelial nitric oxide synthase gene

1996 • 571 citations

SMOKING AND DEATH RATES—REPORT ON FORTY-FOUR MONTHS OF FOLLOW-UP OF 187,783 MEN

1958 • 558 citations

Risk Factors for Chronic Kidney Disease

2003 • 514 citations

Blood pressure in smokers and nonsmokers: Epidemiologic findings

1986 • 417 citations

Lifestyle Factors, Obesity and the Risk of Chronic Kidney Disease

2003 • 398 citations

Mechanisms responsible for sympathetic activation by cigarette smoking in humans.

1994 • 380 citations

Early Predictors of 15-Year End-Stage Renal Disease in Hypertensive Patients

1995 • 340 citations

Smoking as a risk factor for end-stage renal failure in men with primary renal disease

1998 • 306 citations

Smoking Is Associated With Progression of Diabetic Nephropathy

1994 • 294 citations

Smoking Is Related to Albuminuria and Abnormal Renal Function in Nondiabetic Persons

2000 • 287 citations

Cholesterol crystal embolism: A recognizable cause of renal disease

2000 • 275 citations

Cigarette Smoking Increases the Risk of Albuminuria Among Subjects With Type I Diabetes

1991 • 251 citations

Risk Factors for Development of Incipient and Overt Diabetic Nephropathy in Type 1 Diabetic Patients

2002 • 242 citations

Tobacco, hypertension, and vascular disease: Risk factors for renal functional decline in an older population

2000 • 238 citations

Influence of smoking and obesity on the development of proteinuria

2002 • 233 citations

Overt proteinuria and microalbuminuria in autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease.

1994 • 226 citations

Smoking in Relation to Atherosclerosis of the Coronary Arteries

1965 • 207 citations

The renal risks of smoking

1997 • 201 citations

Effects of Low Dose Sympathetic Inhibition on Glomerulosclerosis and Albuminuria in Subtotally Nephrectomized Rats

2000 • 189 citations

Effects of current smoking and smoking discontinuation on renal function and proteinuria in the general population

2000 • 181 citations

Microalbuminuria in hypertensive patients with electrocardiographic left ventricular hypertrophy: The LIFE Study

2002 • 173 citations

Cigarette-smoking as a risk factor for macroproteinuria and proliferative retinopathy in Type I (insulin-dependent) diabetes

1986 • 172 citations

Silica Exposure in Anti-Neutrophil Cytoplasmic Autoantibody-Associated Glomerulonephritis and Lupus Nephritis

2001 • 168 citations

Clinical prognostic factors in lupus nephritis. The importance of hypertension and smoking

1992 • 166 citations

Renal Artery Stenosis: A Common, Treatable Cause of Renal Failure?

2001 • 157 citations

Cigarette smoking is associated with augmented progression of renal insufficiency in severe essential hypertension

2000 • 149 citations

EXCESS RISK OF RENAL ALLOGRAFT LOSS ASSOCIATED WITH CIGARETTE SMOKING

2001 • 148 citations

Renovascular disease in older patients beginning renal replacement therapy

1995 • 146 citations

Effects of smoking on renal hemodynamics in healthy volunteers and in patients with glomerular disease.

1998 • 144 citations

Epidemiology of renal involvement in newly-diagnosed middle-aged and elderly diabetic patients. Cross-sectional data from the population-based study “Diabetes Care in General Practice”, Denmark

1993 • 142 citations

Cigarette smoking and cancers of the renal pelvis and ureter.

1992 • 142 citations

Predictors of the progression of diabetic nephropathy and the beneficial effect of angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors in NIDDM patients

1997 • 140 citations

The Relationship Between Smoking and Microvascular Complications in the EURODIAB IDDM Complications Study

1995 • 139 citations

Impairment of endothelium-dependent relaxation of rabbit aortas by cigarette smoke extract—role of free radicals and attenuation by captopril

1997 • 138 citations

A Nonlinear Effect of Hyperglycemia and Current Cigarette Smoking Are Major Determinants of the Onset of Microalbuminuria in Type 1 Diabetes

2001 • 135 citations

Cigarette Smoking and Prevalence of Microangiopathy in Juvenile-Onset Insulin-dependent Diabetes Mellitus

1978 • 134 citations

Renal findings in patients with short-term type 2 diabetes.

1996 • 133 citations

Renal impairment in chronic cigarette smokers.

1998 • 130 citations

Similar rate of progression in the predialysis phase in type I and type II diabetes mellitus

1994 • 129 citations

Idiopathic nodular glomerulosclerosis is a distinct clinicopathologic entity linked to hypertension and smoking

2002 • 122 citations

Cigarette smoking predicts faster progression of type 2 established diabetic nephropathy despite ACE inhibition

2002 • 122 citations

Cigarette smoking and the development and progression of aortic atherosclerosis. A 9-year population-based follow-up study in women.

1993 • 118 citations

Predicting clinical outcome in the elderly renal transplant recipient

2000 • 107 citations

The Predictive Value of Microalbuminuriq in IPPM: A five-year follow-up study

1994 • 106 citations

Smoking – A Renal Risk Factor

2000 • 102 citations

Prevalence and Risk Factors for Micro- and Macroalbuminuria in an Italian Population-Based Cohort of NIDDM Subjects

1996 • 101 citations

Age, blood pressure and smoking effects on chronic renal failure in primary glomerular nephropathies

2000 • 101 citations

The health consequences of cigarette smoking: Pulmonary Diseases

1992 • 98 citations

Course and prognosis of anti-basement membrane antibody (anti-BM-Ab)-mediated disease: report of 35 cases

1994 • 93 citations

Albuminuria in normals and essential hypertension

1994 • 92 citations

The Natural History of Insulin‐Dependent Diabetes Mellitus in Denmark: 1. Long‐term survival with and without late diabetic complications

1987 • 91 citations

Cigarette smoking and vascular pathology in renal biopsies

2002 • 90 citations

Smoking Habits and Prevalence of Clinical Diabetic Microangiopathy in Insulin‐Dependent Diabetics

1984 • 90 citations

Cardiovascular risk factors and the long-term outcome of lupus nephritis

2001 • 88 citations

Clinical factors associated with urinary albumin excretion in type II diabetes

1995 • 85 citations

Albuminuria in normotensive and hypertensive individuals attending offices of general practitioners

1996 • 80 citations

Relationship of Smoking and Albuminuria in Children with Insulin‐dependent Diabetes

1994 • 77 citations

Ten-Year Incidence of Gross Proteinuria in People With Diabetes

1995 • 76 citations

Tobacco and end stage diabetic nephropathy.

1987 • 76 citations

Influence of cigarette-smoking on the progression of clinical diabetic nephropathy in type 2 diabetic patients.

1997 • 73 citations

Apolipoproteins Prevent Glomerular Albumin Permeability Induced In Vitro by Serum from Patients with Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis

2001 • 70 citations

Effect of Heavy Cigarette Smoking on Renal and Myocardial Arterioles

1983 • 67 citations

Outcome of renal transplantation in ninety-seven cyclosporine-era patients with systemic lupus erythematosus and matched controls

1998 • 66 citations

Kidney function and glomerulopathy over 8 years in young patients with Type I (insulin-dependent) diabetes mellitus and microalbuminuria

2002 • 63 citations

Cigarette smoke condensate aggravates renal injury in the renal ablation model

2002 • 62 citations

Cigarette smoking and bladder cancer

1990 • 61 citations

Risk Factors for Kidney Damage in the Adult Population of Wadena, Minnesota: A Prospective Study

1997 • 59 citations

Low Levels of Urinary Albumin Excretion Are Associated with Cardiovascular Risk Factors in the General Population

2000 • 55 citations

Incidence of Gross Proteinuria in Older-Onset Diabetes: A Population-Based Perspective

1993 • 53 citations

A study of patients with diabetes mellitus (type 1) and end‐stage renal failure: tobacco usage may increase risk of nephropathy and death

1990 • 52 citations

Pharmacokinetics of nicotine in kidney failure

2000 • 50 citations

Adverse Effects of Smoking in the Renal Patient.

2001 • 48 citations

Night Blood Pressure and Cigarette Smoking: Disparate Association in Healthy Subjects and Diabetic Patients

1994 • 47 citations

Myocardial and renal arteriolar thickening in cigarette smokers

1984 • 45 citations

Renal hemodynamic changes during smoking: effects of adrenoreceptor blockade

1999 • 41 citations

Risk factors for IgA nephropathy: A case-control study in Japan

1999 • 39 citations

Primary Glomerulonephritis and Hydrocarbon Exposure: A Case-Control Study and Literature Review

1992 • 38 citations

Prevalence of angiographic atherosclerotic renal artery disease and its relationship to the anatomical extent of peripheral vascular atherosclerosis

1999 • 37 citations

Clinical characteristics of ischaemic renal disease

2001 • 37 citations

Angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibition improves venous endothelial dysfunction in chronic smokers

1999 • 34 citations

Effects of smoking on blood pressure and proteinuria in patients with diabetic nephropathy

1996 • 34 citations

Minimal change disease and focal segmental glomerulosclerosis

2001 • 34 citations

Cigarette Smoking Habits and Urine Characteristics

1978 • 32 citations

The influence of pre-operative electrocardiographic abnormalities and cardiovascular risk factors on patient and graft survival following renal transplantation.

2002 • 32 citations

The Epidemiology of Renal Cell Carcinoma

2000 • 27 citations

Renal Function in Long-Duration Type I Diabetes

1996 • 24 citations

Staining of bone aluminium: comparison between aluminon and solocbrome azurine and their correlation with bone aluminium content

1996 • 23 citations

Renal involvement in type 1 (IDDM) diabetes in Spain

1997 • 23 citations

Increasing the diagnostic yield of renal angiography for the diagnosis of atheromatous renovascular disease

2001 • 22 citations

Renal involvement in subjects with peripheral atherosclerosis.

2001 • 21 citations

Cigarette smoking habits and urine characteristics: urinalysis abnormalities are more common is smokers, but the reasons are unclear.

1978 • 20 citations

Donor factors in cadaveric renal transplantation.

1993 • 19 citations

Renal vascular changes in renal disease independent of hypertension

2001 • 14 citations

Cigarette Smoking and Pauci-Immune Extracapillary Glomerulo-nephritis with ANCA-Associated Idiopathic Systemic Vasculitis

2000 • 9 citations

[Microalbuminuria in hypertensive, non-proteinuric renal transplant recipients: role of previous acute rejection episodes and sodium intake].

2001 • 5 citations

Diabetic nephropathy. A clinical study of risk factors in type-I diabetes mellitus.

1988 • 4 citations

[Are demographic characteristics of hypertensive patients different with renal artery stenosis?].

2001 • 3 citations

[Smoking and atheromatous stenosis of the renal arteries].

2001 • 3 citations