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Detecting the SOS: Why uACR Testing Is Key to Preventing Heart Failure

In a wide ranging conversation, Andrew J. Sauer, MD, of Saint Luke’s Mid America Heart Institute, explains why routine uACR testing is a powerful yet underused tool for detecting early kidney damage and uncovering hidden cardiovascular risk. Sauer emphasizes that albumin leakage in urine signals inflammation long before kidney filtration declines—and that elevated uACR can more than triple a patient’s risk for heart failure and other serious events. He calls for closing the awareness gap among clinicians and patients, standardizing testing through system level “nudges,” and treating uACR as an essential part of comprehensive cardiokidney prevention.