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Clinical usefulness of a timed overnight (8 hours) Urine Albumin (microalbumin) excretion in monitor-ing treatment in benign essential hypertension
This research aims to establish the usefulness of timed over- night (8 hours) Urine Albumin(microalbumin) Excretion (UAE), in monitoring therapy in Nigerian patients with benign essential hypertension. The study population comprised 40 normotensives/controls, (23 males and 17 females) aged between 2...
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Published in: | The Nigerian postgraduate medical journal 2014, Vol.21 (2), p.177-180 |
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Language: | English |
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Summary: | This research aims to establish the usefulness of timed over- night (8 hours) Urine Albumin(microalbumin) Excretion (UAE), in monitoring therapy in Nigerian patients with benign essential hypertension.
The study population comprised 40 normotensives/controls, (23 males and 17 females) aged between 20-70 years, with a mean blood pressure 116/75mmHg, 30 well-controlled hypertensive patients, diastolic BP 100mmHg or MAP >110mmHg.Urine albumin(microalbumin) was determined on the 8 hours overnight urine samples by ELISA method using kit from Randox Laboratories Limited, N.Ireland Cat No. MA 1410. UAE was calculated from the urine albumin concentration, urine volume and collection time. The intra assay precision was determined by running 20 replicates of two kit controls in a single batch. The coefficient of variation was 6.6% at 10.70mg/L and 4.3% at 51.20mg/L.
The average UAE in the three groups were as follows: 12:22 +/-4.65ug/ min, 21.50 +/- 10.5ug/min and 30.10 +/- 24.25 ug/min in the control, well controlled and poorly controlled groups respectively, 12.5% of normotensive subjects, 40% of well controlled and 56.7% of poorly controlled patients were found to have microalbuminuria.The UAE increased significantly with the severity of hypertension (r = 0.32, p |
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ISSN: | 1117-1936 2468-6875 |
DOI: | 10.4103/1117-1936.163631 |