What Is a Creatinine Test? A creatinine test, also called a serum creatinine test, measures how well your kidneys are working. Creatinine is a waste product from the normal breakdown of muscle tissue.

Some elderly patients show gradual increases in creatinine even when hypertension, blood glucose levels, etc., are well controlled. When should these patients be referred to nephrology or come in for ...

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The glomerular filtration rate (GFR) is a measure of how well your kidneys are removing waste from your blood, which can be determined using an estimated GFR (eGFR) test. The test gets its name from ...

Muscle atrophy Study reveals greater likelihood of decreased walking speed and more rapid declines in lower-extremity strength. Lower serum creatinine clearance is associated with muscle atrophy, ...

Am J Health Syst Pharm. 2010;67(4):274-279. Figure 1 demonstrates the curves of precision and bias using AF between 0.62 and 0.75 in the investigation group. An AF of 0.66 yielded the best precision, ...

A urine protein-creatinine ratio (UPCR) test looks for high levels of protein in your urine, which can happen in kidney disease. Results that are higher than average may be a sign of a kidney-related ...

Serum 1,25-dihydroxyvtamin D3 and osteocalcin are significantly correlated with the calcium/creatinine clearance ratio in adults with primary hyperparathyroidism revealing that the diagnostic value of ...

Am J Health Syst Pharm. 2010;67(4):274-279. One limitation to this study was the small sample size. Due to the small sample size, statistical significance was not reached for some variables and ...