The prevalence of asymptomatic pyuria in diabetic patients: comparison of the Sysmex UF-100 automated urinalysis analyzer with Fuchs-Rosenthal hemacytometer.
OBJECTIVE
We investigated the prevalence of asymptomatic pyuria (ASP) in diabetic patients and compared the Sysmex UF-100 with Fuchs-Rosenthal hemacytometer.


METHODS
ASP prevalence was investigated in 227 diabetic patients. Imprecision, accuracy and correlation of UF-100 with hemacytometer in measuring leukocyte counts were determined.


RESULTS
Diabetic women and men had significantly higher ASP prevalence than non-diabetic women (21.4 vs. 8.7%) and men (12.2 vs. 3.4%). Disease duration and HbA(1C) levels were similar in diabetic patients with and without ASP. UF-100 and hemacytometer readings correlated significantly (r=0.88) without a significant bias. Within-run coefficients of variations for UF-100 (8.14, 6.35 and 12.18%) and hemacytometer (5.14, 5.18 and 8.03%) did not differ significantly.


CONCLUSIONS
Prevalence of ASP is increased in diabetic patients and not affected by duration of disease or control of hyperglycemia. UF-100 seemed to be a reliable, precise and accurate system to determine pyuria.
Ozdem
Sebahat
S
Akdeniz University, Medical Faculty, Department of Central Lab. Clinical Biochemistry, Antalya, Turkey. ozdem@akdeniz.edu.tr <ozdem@akdeniz.edu.tr>
Bayraktar
Taner
T
Oktay
Cem
C
Sari
Ramazan
R
Gültekin
Meral
M
D000368:Aged; D001322:Autoanalysis / Q000379:methods; D002452:Cell Count / Q000379:methods*; D003924:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000652:urine*; D005260:Female; D005434:Flow Cytometry / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D007962:Leukocytes / Q000502:physiology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015995:Prevalence; D011776:Pyuria / Q000175:diagnosis*; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D016482:Urinalysis / Q000379:methods*