Screening school children for albuminuria, proteinuria and occult blood with dipsticks

Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 149-157

  Pugia, Michael J ^h   Lott, John A ^a,g   Kajima, Junko ^b   Saambe, Takaaki ^b   Sasaki, Miyuki ^c   Kuromoto, Kooichi ^c   Nakamura, Reiko ^d   Fusegawa, Hisae ^e   Ohta, Yoshihide ^f  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Tokyo Association of Health Service   (Japan)

^c Minoh City Hospital   (Japan)

^d TOKAI UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^e TOKAI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^f DAIICHI SANKYO CO   (Japan)

^g THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY WEXNER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^h NONE

Author keywords

Albumin; Bayesian statistics; Diagnostic tests; Hematuria; Occult blood; Pyrogallol red; Renal function; Risk evaluation; Urinalysis; Urine creatinine

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; CREATININE; PROTEIN;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HUMAN; KIDNEY DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCULT BLOOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN URINE LEVEL; PROTEINURIA; RISK FACTOR; SCREENING; URINALYSIS; UROGENITAL TRACT DISEASE;

EID: 0033053583     PISSN: 14346621     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/CCLM.1999.027     Document Type: Article

References (23)

1. Murakami M, Yamamoto H, Ueda Y, Murakami K, Yamauchi K. Urinary screening of elementary and junior high-school children over a 13-year period in Tokyo. Pediatr Nephrol 1991; 5:50-3.
2. Kodama K, Tomioka M, Otani T, Shimizu S, Uchigata Y, Hirata Y. The range of albumin concentrations in the single-void first morning urine of 1090 healthy young children. Diabet Res Clin Pract 1990; 9:55-8.
3. Hoegholm A, Bang LE, Kristensen KS, Nielsen JH, Holm J. Microalbuminuria in 411 untreated individuals with established hypertension, white coat hypertension, and normotension. Hypertension 1994; 24:101-5.
4. Kutter D, Kremer A, Bousser F, Kambris Z. A simple and inexpensive screening test for low protein levels in urine. Clin Chim Acta 1997; 258:231-9.
5. Yokoyama H, Uchigata Y, Otani T, Tomioka M, Kodama K, Omori Y. Changes of albumin concentrations in the first morning urine according to age and sex in 2990 healthy children and adults. Diab Res Clin Prac 1993; 21:167-70.
6. Mogensen CE. Christensen CK, Vittinghus E, The stages in diabetic renal disease. Diabetes 1983; 32:64-78.
7. Mueller PW, Hall WD, Caudill SP, MacNeil ML, Arepally A. An in-depth examination of excretion of albumin and other sensitive markers of renal damage in mild hypertension. Am J Hypertension 1995; 8:1072-82.
8. Deckert T, Kofoed-Enevoldsen A, Norgaard K, Borch-Johnsen K, Feldt-Rasmussen B, Jensen T. Microalbuminuria. Implications for micro- and macrovascular disease. Diabetes Care 1992; 15:1181-91.
9. Connell SJ, Hollis S, Tieszen KL, McMurray JR, Dornan TL. Gender and the clinical usefulness of the albumin : creatinine ratio. Diabetic Med 1994; 11:32-6.
10. Port FK. End-state renal disease: magnitude of the problem, prognosis of future trends and possible solutions. Kidney Internat 1995; 48 (Suppl. 50):S3-S6.
11. Guder WG, Hofmann W. Differentiating of proteinuria and haematuria by single protein analysis in urine. Clin Biochem 1993; 26:277-82.
12. Speicher CE, Smith JW Jr. Choosing effective laboratory tests. Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders Co., 1983; 47-59.
13. Pugia MJ, Lott JA, Clark LW, Parker DR, Wallace JF, Willis TW. Comparison of urine dipsticks with quantitative methods for microalbuminuria. Eur J Clin Chem Clin Biochem 1997; 35:693-700.
14. Pugia MJ, Lott JA, Luke KE, Shihabi ZK, Wians FH Jr, Phillips L. Comparison of instrument-read dipsticks for albumin and creatinine in urine with visual results and quantitative methods. J Clin Lab Anal 1998; 12:280-4.
15. Ginsberg JM, Chang BS, Matarese RA, Garella S. Use of single voided urine samples to estimate quantitative proteinuria. N Engl J Med 1983;309:1543-6.
16. Graff L. A handbook of routine urinalysis. Philadelphia: JB Lippincott Co., 1982; 29-33.
17. Lott JA, Johnson WR, Luke KE. Evaluation of an automated urine chemistry reagent-strip analyzer. J Clin Lab Anal 1995; 9:212-7.
18. Krämer BK, Kernz M, Ress KM, Pfohl M, Müller GH, Schmülling R-M, et al. Influence of strenuous exercise on albumin excretion. Clin Chem 1988; 34:2516-8.
19. Pesce AJ, First MR. Proteinuria, an integrated review. New York: Marcel Dekker, Inc., 1979: 158-74.
20. Shaw AB, Risdon P, Lewis-Jackson JD. Protein creatinine index and Albustix assessment of proteinuria. Br Med J 1987; 287:929-32.
21. Bianchi S, Bigazzi R, Baldari G, Sgherri G, Campese VM. Diurnal variations of blood pressure and microalbuminuria in essential hypertension. Am J Hypertension 1994; 7:23-9.
22. Cockcroft DW, Gault MH. Prediction of the creatinine clearance from serum creatinine. Nephron 1976; 16:311-41.
23. Kutter D, Thoma J. Sind Teststreifen auf Harnprotein auf Basis des Proteinfehlers von Indikatoren noch zeitgemäss? Lab Med 1994; 18:333-6.