eGFR, any ideas????

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does any one have a handle on this new bizarre way of calculating renal function. have read everything and am still none the wiser!

have you had your eGFR calculated?

yip, its 62, and my creatanine is 80. cant understand how they have come to that conclusion. I do have kidney problems.

eGFR is meant to take into account other factors such as weight/height etc and is a more dynamic measurement of renal function than just plasma creatinine

try this

that would give me a result of 81 which I would be much happier about!
there must be someother indicator in my blood which is giving me a lower value..it is worrying. it is a border line value for severe renal imparement!
I feel totally fine! dont understand

Well the abnormal values from 0-60 are divided into 4 bands so you are on the borderline of the top band which is not classed as severe renal impairment

see here

I know, my worry is that renal function declines by 10% every 10 years after you turn 50 and there is not much room for deterioration before I hit critical function. do yo uthink the test could be inaccurately low. I was just off and nightshift and probably a bit dehydrated. HAve been on a bit of a crash diet so albumin could have been low. you think its worth repeating?

Always worth repeating and i think certainly if you were a bit dehydrated it would impact on the results.
Make you sure you are well hydrated this time

Thakss DR, have an appt tommorrow, just wanted to be sure I wanst over reacting, its a bit frightening to realise that you are not as invincible as you thought you were.

no worries, good luck tomorrow