Despite their higher risk of chronic kidney disease, people with hypertension or diabetes usually are not given a simple test for protein in the urine to screen for this potentially deadly disorder, ...

Large study suggests that urine test for detecting chronic kidney disease is not used enough in high-risk groups such as people with hypertension or diabetes Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public ...

WASHINGTON -- Lupus nephritis (LN) diagnosis could improve greatly if early results with a multimarker urine test are confirmed in larger studies, research presented here suggested. Measurement of 12 ...

In the cross-sectional cohort, the semi-quantitative ACR had a sensitivity of 78.1% and a specificity of 93.3% at a 30 mg/g creatinine cutoff, with over 90% overall agreement with quantitative ACR ...

Only 1 in 15 urine dipstick tests showing proteinuria in the primary care setting are followed up with albuminuria quantification testing, according to investigators. These findings expose a broad gap ...