{"id":32876,"date":"2023-04-02T12:02:06","date_gmt":"2023-04-02T09:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/labcare.gr\/?p=32876"},"modified":"2023-04-18T23:49:08","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T20:49:08","slug":"serum-urea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/labcare.gr\/en\/serum-urea\/","title":{"rendered":"Serum urea"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<strong>About the test<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Urea is the final product of protein catabolism in the liver.<\/p>\n<p>Proteins initially break down to amino acids, which, in turn, degrade to toxic ammonia. A series of enzyme-mediated reactions leads to transformation of ammonia to the non-toxic urea. Urea is then released in blood circulation and is transported to the kidneys, through which it is excreted in urine.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sample<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Venous blood<\/p>\n<p><strong>Preparation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>None required<\/p>\n<p><strong>Procedure<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Venipuncture<\/p>\n<p><strong>Increased values<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Kidney disease<\/li>\n<li>Dehydration<\/li>\n<li>Congestive heart failure<\/li>\n<li>High protein diet<\/li>\n<li>Gastrointestinal tract bleeding<\/li>\n<li>Drugs: Corticosteroids<\/li>\n<li>Trauma, shock<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Decreased values<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Liver disease<\/li>\n<li>Pregnancy<\/li>\n<li>Childhood<\/li>\n<li>Low protein diet<\/li>\n<li>Alcoholism<\/li>\n<li>Celiac sprue<\/li>\n<li>Drugs: Chloramphenicol, streptomycin<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Additional information<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Urea values are lower in childhood and they tend to increase with age.<\/p>\n<p>Renal function evaluation requires both urea and creatinine testing.<\/p>\n<p>Men tend to have higher urea values than women.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Urea is the final product of protein catabolism in the liver. Proteins initially break down to amino acids, which, in turn, degrade to toxic ammonia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33285,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-list-of-exams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/labcare.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/labcare.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/labcare.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labcare.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labcare.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32876"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/labcare.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33502,"href":"https:\/\/labcare.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32876\/revisions\/33502"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labcare.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/labcare.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labcare.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labcare.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}