Jane F. Wallace

TL;DR: A dipstick test plus an optical strip reader that can measure urine protein, albumin, and creatinine and calculate the appropriate ratios provides a better screening test for albuminuria or proteinuria than one measuring only albumin or protein.

TL;DR: With the simultaneous measurement of creatinine and albumin in urine, the albumin/creatinine ratio can be determined effectively reducing or eliminating the occasional false-negative and false-positive result in those with dilute or concentrated urines, respectively.

TL;DR: A multisite evaluation of a new urine dipstick called Multistix PRO™ (Bayer, Elkhart, IN), which has reagent pads for the simultaneous assay of urinary albumin, protein, and creatinine found that dividing the dipsticks’ albumin or protein results by the creatInine concentration reduced the number of false‐positive album in or protein values observed in concentrated urines, and reduced theNumber of false negatives in dilute urines.

TL;DR: Patients with cardiovascular disease, kidney disease, or diabetes showed the greatest predictive value of a positive test for albumin or protein by dipstick, suggesting that albuminuria and/or proteinuria were underdiagnosed in this group of patients.

TL;DR: In this article, an improved method for determining the concentration of a first analyte in a fluid test sample as a function of a second analyte also present in the sample whose concentration in the fluid sample is clinically related to that of the analyte was proposed.