1. Spot urinary protein/osmolality ratio as a predictor for proteinuria of nephrotic range
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Md. Moazzam Hossain, Md. Saiful Islam, and Salma Jahan
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Male ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Nephrotic Syndrome ,Adolescent ,Urinary system ,Urology ,Urine ,Urinalysis ,Excretion ,chemistry.chemical_compound ,Internal medicine ,medicine ,Humans ,Prospective Studies ,Child ,Osmole ,Kidney ,Creatinine ,Proteinuria ,business.industry ,Case-control study ,Infant ,General Medicine ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,Endocrinology ,chemistry ,Case-Control Studies ,Child, Preschool ,Female ,medicine.symptom ,business - Abstract
A prospective study was carried out on 50 patients (age 1-15 years) with nephrotic range of proteinuria to determine the correlation of 24-hour urinary total protein with spot urinary protein/creatinine ratio and urinary protein/osmolality ratio. Another 50 patients having no proteinuria grouped as control. Twenty-four hours urine and spot urine were collected from each child and were analyzed for total volume, total protein, creatinine and osmolality level. The average 24-hour urinary total proteins in nephritic patient were 2148.6 ± 808.7 mg and the spot urinary protein/creatinine and spot urinary protein/osmolality were 3.2332 ± 0.4293 mg/mg and 3.2418 ± 0.4393 mg/mOsm respectively. There was a strong positive correlation of the 24-hour urinary total protein with spot urinary protein/creatinine and protein/osmolality ratios (r=0.9846 and 0.9870, p=
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- 1970
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