title: The range of albumin concentrations in the single-void first morning urine of 1090 healthy young children.
abstract: To predict microalbuminuria easily in the diabetic outpatient clinic, we determined the range of albumin concentrations in the single-void first morning urine in 1090 healthy subjects of age 6-11 by the modified turbidimetry immunoassay (TIA) method, which uses 96-well microplates and a microplate reader to perform the assay quickly and conveniently. As the correlation coefficient of albumin concentration by the TIA uncorrected for creatinine versus corrected for creatinine was r = 0.79 (P less than 0.005), the values uncorrected for creatinine were used. When the distribution of values from 1090 healthy young children was simulated by using the chi-square test (k = 1), the 95% confidence interval was 0-18 micrograms/ml.
authors.affiliation: Diabetes Centre, Tokyo Women's Medical College, Japan.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kodama
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Tomioka
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Otani
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Shimizu
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Uchigata
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Hirata
mesh_terms: D000419:Albuminuria; D002648:Child; D003404:Creatinine / Q000652:urine; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009391:Nephelometry and Turbidimetry / Q000379:methods; D011863:Radioimmunoassay / Q000379:methods; D012016:Reference Values
chemical_list: D003404:Creatinine