Does Normal Creatinine Level Indicate Healthy Kidneys

2014-12-25 11:29

Does normal creatinine level indicate healthy kidneys? Creatinine level is an indicator of measuring kidney function. High or low creatinine level both indicates abnormal kidney function. In this case, many people think that normal creatinine level shows healthy kidneys. Well, is it true to say normal creatinine level indicate healthy kidneys?

Creatinine level higher than the normal range is called high creatinine level. creatinine includes serum creatinine and urine creatinine. But serum creatinine level plays an important role in measuring kidney function. Therefore, high creatinine level usually refers to high serum creatinine level. It is different to measure normal serum creatinine level. Generally speaking, normal serum creatinine level is 44-133umol/L. When serum creatinine level is higher than 133umol/L, it indicates that kidneys have been damaged. Kidney dysfunction and renal failure has occurred.

Are kidneys healthy with normal creatinine level? Renal experts say that serum creatinine level is a common indicator for kidney function. Most people think that as long as serum creatinine level is within the normal range, there is no problem of your kidney function. Actually, this thought is not true. Serum creatinine level does not reflect the condition of kidney function. Elevated creatinine level does not occur until at least half of kidney function has been damaged. That is to say, glomerular filtration rate (GFR) is lower than 50%, high creatinine level presents.

Change of concentration in serum creatinine level relies on the filtering ability of glomerular. Therefore, you should pay attention to high creatinine level. Low filtering ability indicates increased concentration of creatinine. High serum creatinine indicates kidney damage in most cases. Serum creatinine can be an accurate reflection of the situation of the renal parenchyma damage.

Does high creatinine level indicate healthy kidneys? From the above, we can see serum creatinine level does not reflect kidney lesion timely. Therefore, it is necessary for you to take other checkups so as to diagnose kidney disease timely and take early treatment.

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