What the heck is "Urate"?

I just saw "urate" on my patient's blood test results. How do I enter it into the software?

Urate is another way to describe Uric Acid. Much the same way that labs outside of the US refer to BUN as Urea or CO2 as Bicarbonate, labs will often use different terms to describe biomarker analytes.

So, take the result for urate and use it in the Uric Acid "slot" on data entry if the unit is reported in µmol/L or umol/L (micromol/L).

Sometimes urate will be in mmol/L which is not compatible with the SI unit of µmol/L for Uric Acid (Male and Female) in the ODX software. However, we have a Unit Conversion tool at OptimalDX.com that can easily convert mmol/L into µmol/L:

https://www.optimaldx.com/calculators/si-to-cu-units-converter?name=uric-acid

Once you have the result in µmol/L, enter it into the ODX software.