What does decreased GFR mean? GFR, which is short for glomerular filtration
rate, measures how much blood can kidney filtrate. The mormal range of GFR is 80
to 120. Young men have higher GFR, and advanced people have lower GFR for GFR
decrease by one every year after people are 40 years old. So from the above, we
can know what's the normal range of GFR and whether you have kidney disease or
not. GFR is a very sensitive index which can test kidney damage in the early
stage, which is more accurate than serum creatinine for only after the kidney is
damaged more than half, serum creatinine begins to rise. Also according to GFR,
chronic kidney disease can be divided into five stages. In the fifth stage, GFR
is less than 15 and people go to uremia stage.
How to test kidney damage according to GFR?
People should have annual test on GFR and albumin, both of which can tell the
early damage in kidney. Especially for those with high blood pressure also
called hypertension or diabetes should be more alert to this test. In america,
there are 26,000 new cases of kidney failure which is caused by high blood
pressure every year. In addition, 44 % of kidney failrue is caused by
diabetes.
The above mentioned are about the GFR and kidney disease diagnosis and
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