Uric Acid, 24 Hour details
What Uric Acid, 24 Hour shows
Uric acid is a waste product formed when your body breaks down purines, which come from your own cells and from foods such as meat, seafood and alcohol. This test measures the total amount of uric acid in all the urine you pass over 24 hours. It helps show whether your body makes too much uric acid or does not remove enough, which is useful in assessing gout and kidney stones. A higher result can point to overproduction or a purine-rich diet and is linked to uric acid stones. A lower result can reflect reduced excretion. An incomplete collection affects the result, so it is interpreted with blood uric acid and your diet.
Tests that include Uric Acid, 24 Hour
Urine uric acid may supplement serum uric acid testing when trying to identify conditions in which there is alteration of uric acid production or excretion, e.g., gout, leukemia, renal disease. The amount of uric acid excreted may be useful in treating asymptomatic hyperuricemia. Measurement of urine uric acid is important in the investigation of urolithiasis.
- Creatinine, 24 Hour Measures the total creatinine passed in a 24-hour urine collection, used to check the collection is complete and to calculate kidney function and other urine results.
- Uric Acid, 24 Hour Measures the total uric acid you pass in urine over 24 hours, used to look into kidney stones and how your body handles uric acid.
- Uric Acid/Creatinine Ratio, 24 Hour A ratio calculated from uric acid and creatinine in the same 24-hour urine collection, used to put uric acid excretion in context.
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