Effectiveness of routine urine analysis of patient attending rural health centers in Abbottabad.
BACKGROUND
Renal diseases may be discovered accidentally during routine urinalysis. This study was done to see the significance of urinalysis and study the magnitude of abnormal urinalysis in patients with no symptoms of renal disease.


METHODS
From 15th February to 16th March 2005, a total of 1000 samples of urine were collected from the patients attending three rural health centers of Abbottabad. Dipstick Method was used for urinalysis.


RESULTS
there were 600 males and 400 female patients. The age ranged from 1 to 55 years. Proteinuria was present in 2.3%, hematuria in 4.8% patients, pyuria in 10.2% and glycosuria in 2% patients.


CONCLUSIONS
In our setup routine urine analysis should be performed in all patients to identify the presence of unrecognized renal diseases which may benefit from simple therapeutic measures.
Hanif
Ruhila
R
Department of Biochemistry, Ayub Medical College, Abbottabad.
Ally
Sirajuddin Hassan
SH
Jalal-ud-Din
Khan
Khalid
K
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D019035:Rural Health Services; D016482:Urinalysis; D014570:Urologic Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis*