Twenty-four-hour urine collection, as a gold standard method of measuring salt intake, is costly and resource consuming, which limits its use in monitoring population salt reduction programs. Our ...

The accuracy of the casual urine (CU) method for estimating daily salt intake was compared with the second morning urine (SMU) method and with 24-h urine collection (24UC) method as the gold standard.

May 2, 2012 — Ruling out a urinary tract infection (UTI) is essential in the differential diagnosis for a febrile child, and several methods are available for collecting urine. A study published ...

On average, Americans consume about 3,400 mg of sodium (Na) per day. The Dietary Guidelines for Americans recommend limiting sodium intake to less than 2,300 mg of sodium per day – that’s about one ...

Researchers have shown that analyzing dried urine extracts with GC-MS/MS to assess levels of reproductive hormones in pre-and post-menopausal women provides similar results to radioimmunoassays using ...

Catheterization is difficult in neonates, and collection bags or diaper weight measurements are not accurate and can cause discomfort. Due to the lack of accurate tools, current clinical practices ...

As Dr Dawn Harper, GP and star of Embarrassing Bodies, stated at the Forte Medical Forum at the Royal Society of Medicine today: An initial light-hearted opening comment perhaps, but it quickly became ...