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From:Journal of Diabetes Nursing (Vol. 14, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed5.3. URINE MONITORING For the safe use of urine glucose or ketone monitoring and associated equipment you should be able to: 1. Unregistered * Perform the test according to manufacturer's practitioner instructions and...
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From:Journal of the American Dietetic Association (Vol. 92, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe intake of sodium and other electrolytes can be estimated by analyzing food records with nutrition software and by overnight urine collections. A study involving 27 normotensive, unmedicated adults (10 men and 17...
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From:British Medical Journal (Vol. 306, Issue 6891) Peer-ReviewedUrinary tract infections are common in infancy and childhood and may indicate an underlying urological problem requiring treatment. The standard method for the diagnosis of urinary tract infection remains the...
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From:Chest (Vol. 109, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedPassive smoking has been shown to adversely affect the health of infants and children. Black children and adults appear to be more susceptible to a variety of tobacco smoke health hazards for unknown reason. The...
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From:Nigerian Medical Journal (Vol. 58, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedByline: Richard. Ephraim, Kwaku. Anoff, Ruth. Brenyah, Derick. Osakunor, Samuel. Sakyi, James. Osei-Yeboah, Enoch. Anto Background/Aim: Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) has been implicated as a risk factor for...
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From:Mayo Clinic Proceedings (Vol. 83, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedDrug testing, commonly used in health care, workplace, and criminal settings, has become widespread during the past decade. Urine drug screens have been the most common method for analysis because of ease of sampling....
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From:Canadian Urological Association Journal (Vol. 8, Issue 5-6) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Aiye Guo, MM, Xiuhua Wang, MM, Lan Gao, MM, Juan Shi, BS, Changyi Sun, BS (corresponding author), Zhen Wan, BS Introduction Bladder cancer is one of the most common urologic malignancies.1 More than 25%...
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From:Forensic Science International (Vol. 143, Issue 2-3) Peer-ReviewedAbstract National surveys of the UK drug situation in 2000 found that cocaine was the most frequently seized Class A drug, with 25-40 tonnes of cocaine being smuggled into the UK each year. In the light of these...
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From:BMC Research Notes (Vol. 6, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground Androgen-dependent proteins (lipocalins) circulate in blood of male rats and mice and, being small (~ 18 kDa), pass freely into glomerular filtrate. Some are salvaged in proximal nephrons but some escape...
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From:Clinician Reviews (Vol. 18, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedNext time you have a (male) pediatric patient who refuses to provide a urine specimen, draw a target on the outside bottom of the plastic cup with a marker. Then tell the child to "go hit the target when you pee."...
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From:Chest (Vol. 120, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedPredicting patient outcome is an important component of patient care in critical care units. Physicians are frequently faced with a number of challenging questions posed by patients, relatives, referring physicians, and...
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From:Contemporary Pediatrics (Vol. 16, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedInvestigators evaluated four clinical strategies in a theoretical group of 100,000 asymplomatic sexually active young women to determine the most cost-effective method of screening for Chlamydia and gonorrhea to prevent...
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From:Contemporary Drug Problems (Vol. 27, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe National Institute of Justice (NIJ) established the Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring (ADAM) Program--formerly the Drug Use Forecasting (DUF) Program--in 1987. Within the past two years the ADAM Program has changed...
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From:Contemporary Pediatrics (Vol. 30, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedA new technique facilitates collection of infant urine samples. Spanish investigators reported a technique for obtaining a midstream clean urine sample in newborns in a median time of 45 seconds: After the baby is fed...
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From:Pediatric Nephrology (Vol. 28, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedBackground The goal of this study was to assess the value of a urinary biomarker profile comprised of neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin (NGAL), fibroblast growth factor-2 (FGF-2), and epidermal growth factor...
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From:Addiction Professional (Vol. 9, Issue 6)A cost-benefit analysis released in the fall enumerates some significant financial benefits for regular urine drug testing for patients receiving treatment for chronic pain. Conducted by the economic research and...
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From:Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine (Vol. 132, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedContext.--The manual microscopic examination (MME) of the urine sediment is an imprecise and labor-intensive procedure. Many laboratories have developed rules from clinical parameters or urinalysis results to limit the...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 7, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Louise Watson 1 , * , Amanda R. W. Richardson 2 , Richard C. L. Holt 2 , Caroline A. Jones 2 , Michael W. Beresford 1 Introduction Henoch Schonlein Purpura (HSP) is the commonest systemic vasculitis of...
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From:Family Practice News (Vol. 10, Issue 3)The NOW S. pneumoniae Urinary Antigen Test is the first self-contained urine test for streptococcal pneumonia. The test provides results with 93% accuracy within 15 minutes, according to Binax Inc....
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 17, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedRenal clinical chemistry only detects kidney dysfunction after considerable damage has occurred and is imperfect in predicting long term outcomes. Consequently, more sensitive markers of early damage and better...