People over age 60 may have an apparently normal creatinine blood level but still have a low GFR. The opposite can also be true, where the person may have a mildly low GFR without having kidney ...

A GFR of over 90 is considered ... to keep blood sugar at target levels preventing or treating high blood pressure eating a diet high in fresh vegetables and low in processed foods and salt ...

Doctors consider a GFR of 60 or over to be normal ... A 2020 retrospective study found that even low levels of trimethoprim can increase blood serum levels in patients following a kidney transplant.

If the eGFR is found to be low, kidney function is said to be impaired or reduced. In general, the serum or blood creatinine level does not ... a GFR of between 89 and 60. Stage 3a – Mild ...

but for more than 85% of patients," assessment of kidney function by eGFR based on serum creatinine levels "is more than sufficient," commented Paul Palevsky, MD, chief of the Renal Section of the ...

Dear Dr. Roach: Each year when I receive results from my yearly bloodwork I notice that my GFR score keeps going down. This year is the first year that my score dropped below 60, with a score of 57.

The initial evaluation includes determination of the glomerular filtration rate (GFR), estimated on the basis of the serum creatinine level (eGFRcr ... NA AKD AKI or GFR <60 ml/min/1.73 m ...

sex and creatinine level as in the current eGFRcr and eGFRcr-cys equations but removes the Black race coefficient in computing eGFR, thereby assigning the eGFRcr and eGFRcr-cys values for non ...