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Clinical Chemistry, Vol 36, 1428-1430, Copyright © 1990 by American Association for Clinical Chemistry

Effects of storage time and temperature on measurement of small concentrations of albumin in urine

I Osberg, HP Chase, SK Garg, A DeAndrea, S Harris, R Hamilton and G Marshall
Department of Pediatrics, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver 80262.

Accurate measurement of albumin excretion rates is important in choosing treatment regimens that may reverse early diabetic renal damage. We report here determinations of slight albuminuria ("microalbuminuria") by radioimmunoassay of fresh specimens, frozen aliquots (stored at -20 degrees C for two, eight, and 24 weeks), and refrigerated specimens (stored at 4 degrees C for one, two, and eight weeks). Seven separate analyses were performed on 101 specimens of urine obtained from 37 subjects with insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus and from 10 nondiabetic healthy controls of a similar age. Storage of urine samples at -20 degrees C resulted in significantly lower measurements of microalbuminuria than in fresh urine (ANOVA, corrected for repeated measures: P = 0.01 to 0.0001). In contrast, storage of urine samples at 4 degrees C for as long as eight weeks did not significantly affect urinary albumin results. The pH values of the specimens were minimally altered and were not a likely cause of the decreased albumin values in the frozen specimens. We conclude that urine specimens for microalbuminuria measurements should either be analyzed as fresh specimens or stored at 4 degrees C and assayed as soon as possible.


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