Objective: To investigate the relationship between homeostasis model assessment for insulin resistance (HOMA-R) and urinary albumin excretion in Japanese and clarify gender difference in albuminuria-related insulin resistance.
Methods: The subject group consisted of 752 Japanese who had no history of diabetes, hypertension or dyslipidemia. After anthropometric examination, fasting blood samples were obtained to determine plasma glucose (FPG), lipids and HOMA-R.
The influence of concentration and dilution has been the major issue of urinalysis. This study is to evaluate the usefulness of protein (P)/creatinine (C) ratio (P/C ratio) in spot urine by test strips method. For this purpose, the basic performance of creatinine test strips is evaluated and judging criteria for the urine P/C ratio is defined.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe purpose of this study was to evaluate the clinical usefulness of novel test strip that simultaneously measure urinary albumin and creatinine. Testing was performed on 95 random urine samples from diabetics. Each sample was assayed with following methods: test strip by instrument (AX4280) reading and by visual interpretation, quantitative method for albumin, creatinine, and alpha1-microglobulin and cellulose acetate membrane electrophoresis.
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