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What does GFR African American mean on a blood test?
A simple blood test for GFR (glomerular filtration rate). Your GFR number tells you how well your kidneys are working. Your GFR is estimated from a simple blood test for a waste product called creatinine. Your creatinine number is used in a math formula along with your age, race, and gender to find your GFR.
What does GFR African American 90 mean?
If there is kidney damage, such as protein in the urine, a result between 60 and 89 may mean early kidney disease. Even a GFR over 90 with protein in the urine is a sign of kidney disease. GFR must remain low for three months for kidney disease to be diagnosed.
What is normal GFR African American?
A normal eGFR is 60 or more. If your eGFR is less than 60 for three months or more, your kidneys may not be working well. Use this chart to see what your eGFR may mean.
What is normal GFR black?
A GFR of 60 or higher is in the normal range. A GFR below 60 may mean kidney disease. A GFR of 15 or lower may mean kidney failure.
Is a GFR of 90 good?
A GFR of 90 mL/min or higher is normal in most healthy people.
What is a normal GFR African American?
What is normal GFR African American woman?
Results. A GFR of 60 or higher is in the normal range. A GFR below 60 may mean kidney disease. A GFR of 15 or lower may mean kidney failure.
What does GFR of 89 mean?
if there is kidney damage, such as protein in the urine, a result between 60 and 89 may mean early kidney disease. even a gFR over 90 with protein in the urine is a sign of kidney disease. gFR must remain low for three months for CKd to be diagnosed.
What does EGFR African American?
eGFR for African American & non-African American. GFR (glomerular filtration rate) is equal to the total of the filtration rates of the functioning nephrons in the kidney, it is usually accepted as the best overall index of kidney function. eGFR means the estimated GFR, because GFR can’t be measured directly, it is calculated based on two formulas.
What is EGFR black?
Glomerular filtration rate (GFR) black and non-black refer to race. GFR is a calculated number that helps measure kidney function, and is one of the measurements that is different depending on race.
Why do African Americans have higher GFR?
The MDRD study equation includes a term for the African American race to account for the fact that African Americans have a higher GFR than Caucasians (and other races included in the MDRD Study) at the same level of serum creatinine. This is due to higher average muscle mass and creatinine generation rate in African Americans.
What is EGFR Caucasian?
Welcome to Just Answer and thanks for your question. eGFR is estimated glomerular filtration rate, which is a calculated number based on age, sex, race, and serum creatinine results. The AA stands for African American and the C stands for Caucasian. The eGFR isn’t very good at diagnosing kidney disease;