Screening of renal diseases by urine analysis in primary school aged children at El-Gharbiya governorate-Egypt

Urinary Screening for Detection of Renal Abnormalities in Asymptomatic School Children, Sohag Governorate, Egypt

“…Comparing our results to other similar studies revealed that the percentage of hematuria, proteinuria, and UTIs in our data similar to Rao et al [14] and Shen et al [15] reported in China, higher than those reported in by Bakr et al [11] in Dakahlia city in North Egypt, Nodoshan et al [16] in Yazd city in Iran, Parakh et al [17] in India, Zainal et al [18] in Malaysia, and Murakami et al [19] in Tokyo city in Japan, and lower than those reported by Zein El-Abden et al [12] in El-Garbyia city in North Egypt, El-Shafie et al [13] in Monoufiya city in North Egypt, Dang et al [20] in Vietnam, Hajar et al [21] in Lebanon, Oviasu et al [22] in Nigeria, and Plata et al [23] in Bolivia.…”

“…In the present study, the prevalence of hematuria, proteinuria, and UTIs were 1.0%, 0.3%, and 0.6% respectively for the initial urinary screening and 0.7%, 0.1% and 0.5% respectively in the second screening. Hematuria was the most common abnormality reported in other Egyptian studies [11][12][13] and in other countries such as Lebanon [21] and India [24]. In the present study, 21 children with hematuria, the causes were hypercalciuria in ten children (47.62%), UTIs in seven children (33.33%), PSGN and renal stones (two children (9.52%) for each of them).…”

“…However, there is a routine program involving annual screening of primary school children in some Asian countries [8][9][10]. In Egypt, the prevalence of urinary abnormalities detected by urine screening has varied from 1.3%-16.4% in a first screening and from 0.72%-7.8% in a second screening [11][12][13]. However, these studies were conducted in North Egypt.…”