Understanding your creatinine levels is important for monitoring kidney function. When you go for your yearly check-up, you’ll likely have a routine blood test for creatinine. In some cases, your ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In this video, George L. Bakris, MD, a professor of medicine and the director of the American Heart ...

Contributed by Kim Zuber, PA-C, who oversees patients in seven dialysis centers for Metropolitan Nephrology Associates, Clinton, Md. Referrals to our nephrology office often come with a 24-hour urine ...

Risk for all-cause mortality increased in RA patients with microalbuminuria. (HealthDay News) — For patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), urine albumin-to-creatinine ratio (ACR) is an independent ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients with a urine albumin-creatinine ratio of at least 3,500 mg/g had high rates of hyperkalemia. High rates ...

Dear Doctors: My father has diabetes and high blood pressure. Sometimes he fails to follow medical care for these diseases. Now his level of creatinine has reached 2.6 mg/dL, which is very high. He is ...

Immunophenotypic profiles of plasma cells and tumor burden in patients with smoldering myeloma (SMM) and monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance (MGUS). This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract ...

Microalbuminuria refers to a higher-than-normal amount of albumin in the urine. A high value of this urinary protein may indicate a problem with the kidneys. As people with diabetes have an increased ...