title: Effectiveness of routine urine analysis of patient attending rural health centers in Abbottabad.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry, Ayub Medical College, Abbottabad.
authors.forename: Ruhila
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Hanif
authors.forename: Sirajuddin Hassan
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: Ally
authors.lastname: Jalal-ud-Din
authors.forename: Khalid
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Khan
mesh_terms: 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*