RT Journal
A1 Brown RS
T1 HAs the time come to include urine dipstick testing in screening asymptomatic young adults?
JF JAMA
JO JAMA
YR 2011
FD August 17
VO 306
IS 7
SP 764
OP 765
DO 10.1001/jama.2011.1193
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2011.1193
AB 
Urinalysis was once a standard screening test in routine health evaluation but more recently has not been advised for healthy individuals or unless patients are 60 years or older or at high risk for kidney or cardiovascular disease.1- 2 Although blood tests have replaced urine tests for detecting diabetes, the urine dipstick test remains a simple means of detecting unsuspected hematuria, proteinuria, or both. Are those findings common enough, and more importantly, serious enough to warrant recommending urine dipstick testing as a simple, low-cost screening tool for asymptomatic adolescents and all adults?