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Urine dipstick test for assessing albumin-to-creatinine ratio: a pilot study and the potential impact on chronic kidney disease screening

Key takeaways

A small first-look study tested whether a cheap urine dipstick can stand in for the lab test that measures protein in the urine against creatinine, the standard way to catch kidney damage early. The dipstick results were compared against the lab test in the same people, so this shows how well the two agree, not that using it changes anyone's health. If it works, screening gets much cheaper in places without easy lab access. The record has no abstract, so how many samples were tested is not available here.

Who did this work

Farid Samaan (Oklahoma State Department of Health) · Cristiane Akemi Vicente · Amilton Mouro (Brazilian Society of Computational and Applied Mathematics) · Vitória Ângela Lorenzini Bellotto Bellini · Renata Santos (Hospital Estadual Mário Covas) · Letícia de Souza · Carlos Augusto Lima de Campos · José Arnaldo Shiomi da Cruz (Universidade de São Paulo) · Ricardo Sesso (Universidade Federal de São Paulo) · Gianna Mastroianni Kirsztajn (Universidade Federal de São Paulo)

Source

Paper · OpenAlex, CKD works · 2026-09-03
https://doi.org/10.1186/s12882-026-05339-5