Comparison of albuminuria test and urine test strip in Japanese hypertensive patients: AVA-E study.

CONCLUSIONS: We considered that urine test strip was inadequate test to evaluate albuminuria. Easy and quick albuminuria test on the CLINITEK MICROALB CREATININE TEST might be useful test to risk stratification of hypertensive patients compared to urine test strip. PMID: 26445001 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26445001?dopt=Abstract

Source: Clinical Nephrology - October 7, 2015 Category: Urology & Nephrology Authors: Tani Y, Nakayama M, Terawaki H, Iseki K, Watanabe T Tags: Clin Nephrol Source Type: research