Deficiency in the Detection of Microalbuminuria by Urinary Dipstick in Diabetic Patients
Response to Selgren
- Wayne D. Comper, PHD, DSC and
- Tanya M. Osicka, PHD
- From the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia
- Address correspondence to Dr. Wayne D. Comper, Monash University, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Wellington Road, Clayton, Victoria, Australia 3800. E-mail: wayne.comper{at}med.monash.edu.au
We would like to assure Selgren (1) that in 2002, the American Diabetes Association could find no published study that fulfilled their requirements of a detection rate of >95% for abnormal samples from patients with microalbuminuria for qualitative (or semiquantitiative) dipstick tests. This was quite independent of measuring albumin by the high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) method. We only noted that the American Diabetes Association came to the same conclusion as we …
