What Your Urine Tests Can Reveal That Your Blood Tests Might Not
According to Topoti Mukherjee, Lead Consultant - Nephrology & Kidney Transplant at Aster Whitefield Hospital, urine tests hold great power in diagnostics, sometimes uncovering things that blood alone cannot.
Early Detection of Kidney Changes
Urinalysis can detect protein or micro-albumin in urine long before blood tests show elevated creatinine or decreased estimated GFR, making it a sensitive early marker for kidney stress.
Advantages of Urine Tests
Urine collection is simple, non-invasive, and cost-effective. Innovations in urinary biomarker research show promise, with urine biomarkers potentially outperforming serum ones in certain contexts, especially for detecting kidney or tubular disease.
Urinalysis can detect protein or micro-albumin in urine long before blood tests show elevated creatinine or decreased estimated GFR.
Author summary: Urine tests can reveal more than blood tests in some cases.
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