AGT and type 1 diabetes mellitus: In addition, urinary vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF-A), angiotensinogen (AGT), transferrin [39,40], and α1-acid glycoprotein (a1AGP) [41] were higher in normoalbuminuric children with T1DM than in controls and correlated with the urine albumin/creatinine ratio (UACR).