Epidemiology of Proteinuria in Healthy Korean School Children |
Hyun Soo Oh, Eu Kyung Kim, Ji Sub Oh, Jin Moo Kang |
Department of Pediatrics, Presbyterian Hospital Taegu, Korea |
韓國 健康 學童에서 調査한 蛋白尿 |
吳賢秀, 金義卿, 吳智變, 姜眞無 |
大邱東山基督病院 小兒科 |
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Abstract |
In clinical practice, the routine testing of urine for proteinuria has been the most widely used screening device for urinary tract diseases. This report is the result of the one-screening test to detect the incidence of proteinuria among the healthy Korean school children. A total of 2, 015 school-children in Daegu area, diagnosed to be healthy by the authors, were tested for proteinuria. Hemacombistix of Ames Company, U.S.A. was used for this. 85 children showed proteinuria of 1+ or over, revealing the total incidence of 4.21%. On sex and age prevalence, it showed higher frequency in female children. It occured in 5.9% of the female and in 2. 8% of the male children and revealed increasing incidence of positive proteinuria with increasing age in both sexes, and the highest incidence of 10. 67% was shown among the 5th grade female children. In almost all cases, protein in the urine was ranged between 30 mg〜 100 mg/100 ml. Four female children had proteinuria ranging over 300 mg/100 ml. There was no correlation between the incidence of proteinuria and the pH of the urine.
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