History taking and leukocyturia predict the presence of asymptomatic bacteriuria in women with diabetes mellitus

European Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 19, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 1021-1027

  Mailand, Ruby ^a   Geerlings, Suzanne E ^b   Stolk, Ronald P ^a   Hoes, Arno W ^a   Hoepelman, Andy I M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Asymptomatic bacteriuria; Diabetes mellitus; Diagnosis; Leukocyturia; Logistic regression; ROC curve

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; BACTERIURIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LEUKOCYTURIA; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PREDICTION;

ADULT; AGED; BACTERIURIA; COHORT STUDIES; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MIDDLE AGED; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS; URINE;

EID: 12444271020     PISSN: 03932990     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10654-004-2254-y     Document Type: Article

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