PERBEDAAN KADAR ASAM URAT DARAH PUASA DAN TIDAK PUASA PADA MAHASISWA/I PRODI D.IV ANALIS KESEHATAN

Abstract

Fasting is not necessary for uric acid level measurement in most of the medical laboratory. However, the
minister of health of Republic Indonesiain 2013regulated that the uric acid measurement should be conducted
after 10-12 hours before the blood sampling, indicating the patient should do fasting before the blood
sampling. The issues of fasting and non-fasting for uric acid test is still in debating until now because several
studies reported that the most of test result of patients who did not do fasting exhibited a higher uric acid
level compared to the patients who do fasting. The study uses one group pretest-posttestwhere the main
subject is divided into two groups which are the fasting group and non-fasting group. The samples of the
fasting group have done the fasting activity for 10-12 hours before the blood sampling, while the non-fasting
sample spontaneous do the blood sampling without doing any fasting. 34 blood samples are testing on this
study.The result indicates that non-fasting students have higher uric acid levels compared to the one who
does fasting. The statistical analysis using Paired t-test also showed that there is a significant difference in
the uric acid level of fasting and non-fasting samples showed by the significance level (2- tailed) of 0,000
which is less than the ? value of 0.005 (Sig.< 0,005) with the confidence level of95%.There is a significant
difference in the uric acid level of fasting and non-fasting samples. The results suggest the patient who wants
to do uric acid measurement doing fasting for 10-12 hours