LCN2 and type 1 diabetes mellitus: (57) found that urinary NGAL was present in 31.6% normoalbuminuric and 75% microalbuminuric patients, with a positive correlation between urinary NGAL and ACR, HbA1c, and time of T1DM evolution (50 children with T1DM for 5 or more years and 18 healthy controls).