Interleukin-6 concentrations in the urine and dipstick analyses were related to bacteriuria but not symptoms in the elderly: A cross sectional study of 421 nursing home residents

BMC Geriatrics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Sundvall, Pär Daniel ^a,b,c   Elm, Marie ^d   Ulleryd, Peter ^b,e   Mölstad, Sigvard ^f   Rodhe, Nils ^g,h   Jonsson, Lars ⁱ   Andersson, Bengt ^b   Hahn Zoric, Mirjana ^b   Gunnarsson, Ronny ^a,b,j  

^a Research and Development Unit   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^c Sandared Primary Health Care Centre   (Sweden)

^d Health Care Unit Borås Municipality   (Sweden)

^e Department of Infectious Diseases Institute of Biomedicine Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg ^*  (Sweden)

^f LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^g Centre for Clinical Research   (Sweden)

^h UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

ⁱ Section of Rheumatology   (Sweden)

^j JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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Author keywords

Bacteriuria; Diagnostic tests; Dipstick urinalysis; Homes for the aged; Interleukin 6; Nursing homes; Urinary tract infections

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; IL6 PROTEIN, HUMAN; INTERLEUKIN 6;

AGED; BACTERIURIA; CLINICAL TRIAL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HOME FOR THE AGED; HUMAN; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; NURSING HOME; PROCEDURES; STANDARDS; SWEDEN; URINALYSIS; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS; URINE; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIURIA; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HOMES FOR THE AGED; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-6; MALE; NURSING HOMES; SWEDEN; URINALYSIS; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS;

EID: 84908059710     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712318     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2318-14-88     Document Type: Article

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