Assertion: atherosclerosis's effect | /r/HasProperty | direct
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text: In fact, a growing body of evidence suggests that atherosclerosis has direct effects on the kidney, largely because of intrarenal microvascular and glomerular disease that precedes the onset and represents the silent phase of ischemic renal disease.15,16 Renal function abnormalities may exist at the early stages of atherogenesis and in patients with evidence of only extrarenal atherosclerosis and may precede the onset of overt ischemic nephropathy.17