Kidney Health Screen
Understanding Kidney Health Screen
What is Kidney Health Screen?
Kidney Health Screen includes tests to evaluate the function of your kidney. You should get this test done if you have symptoms that may indicate a kidney disorder like painful urination, blood in urine, frequent urges to urinate, high blood pressure, swelling of hands and feet. You may also need kidney function testing if you have other conditions that can harm the kidneys like diabetes or high blood pressure.
What is Kidney Health Screen used for?
- As a part of preventive health check-up
- If you have signs or symptoms of kidney diseases like swelling or puffiness around the eyes, face, wrists, bloody urine, difficolt, painfol urination, mid back pain
- If you have risk factors for kidney disease like high blood pressure, diabetes mellitus, cardiovasclolar disease, obesity, elevated cholesterol or a family history of kidney disease
- If you are being treated for kidney disease for monitoring purposes
What does Kidney Health Screen measure?
Contains 16 testsUrea/ Blood Urea Nitrogen
Uric Acid
A Uric Acid test determines the level of uric acid in your body. Uric acid is a nitrogenous compound produced by the metabolic breakdown of purine. Purines are present as nitrogenous bases in the DNA and are also found in food like red meat and seafood.
Most uric acid dissolves in the blood and goes into your kidneys. From there, it passes through your body via the urine. Decreased elimination of uric acid is often a result of impaired kidney function due to kidney disease. In many cases, the exact cause of excess uric acid is unknown. Doctors seldom need to test for low levels of uric acid.
Know more about Uric Acid
Interpreting Kidney Health Screen results
Interpretations
- Urea/ BUN - High levels suggest impaired kidney function caused by acute or chronic kidney disease or rarely due to some other conditions like congestive heart failure or dehydration
- Creatinine - High levels suggest impaired kidney function
- Calcium - Low levels may be seen with kidney failure
- Albumin - Low blood level may indicate that the kidneys cannot prevent albumin from leaking out
- Glucose - High blood level indicate diabetes, which is an important cause of kidney disease
- Uric acid: Higher than normal levels of uric acid in the blood is called Hyperuricemia and may be caused due to kidney diseases, gout, chemotherapy or radiotherapy treatment.
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Urine Routine & MIcroscopy: It includes various tests that detect cells, cell fragments and substances such as crystals or casts in the urine associated with the various conditions
Other tests
