What is creatinine?
Creatinine, also known as serum creatinine, is the metabolic byproducts of muscles. In normal condition, creatinine should be removed out by kidney which has function to discharge internal toxins. If your creatinine level is higher than normal range, there is something wrong with your muscles or renal function.
What’s the normal range of creatinine level?
A normal range is 0.7 to 1.3 mg/dL for men and 0.6 to 1.1 mg/dL for women. Women usually have lower results, because they have less muscle than men. Besides, reference range varies in different counties and different laboratories.
Lower level of normal range usually means your muscular contraction, such as muscular dystrophy or myasthenia gravis etc.
Higher level of reference range usually reveals damage to your renal function. Let’s take the level 3.44 for example. You may step into CKD (Chronic Kidney Disease) stage III, in which you are experiencing high blood pressure, the increase of PTH (Parathyroid Hormone) and the changes of protein. Renal anemia may be another signal. So you may have risk in the following disease:
Acute tubular necrosis
Diabetic nephropathy
Glomerulonephritis
Kidney failure
Pyelonephritis
Reduced kidney blood flow (shock, congestive heart failure)
Rhabdomyolysis
Urinary tract obstruction
If you are woman, you may undergo
Eclampsia (a condition of pregnancy that includes seizures)
Preeclampsia (pregnancy-induced hypertension)
All of these diseases are for your reference. The final diagnosis can’t be made only with creatinine level. If you can provide other reference index, our online staffs are glad to provide exact answer.
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