What Is a Creatinine Test? A creatinine test, also called a serum creatinine test, measures how well your kidneys are working. Creatinine is a waste product from the normal breakdown of muscle tissue.

Share on Pinterest High serum creatinine levels are a potential sign of kidney disease. Serum creatinine levels that are too high may be a sign that the kidneys are having trouble doing their job.

Early detection and new biomarkers are changing how we manage acute kidney injury—and its link to chronic kidney disease.

Objective Many societies recommend using estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) rather than serum creatinine (sCr) to determine metformin eligibility. We examined the potential impact of ...

The SGLT2 inhibitor empagliflozin (Jardiance) reduced the risk of creatinine increases and acute kidney injury (AKI) even in ...

The accuracy of estimation of kidney function with the use of routine metabolic tests, such as measurement of the serum creatinine level, has been controversial. The European Kidney Function ...

An international research team led by Osaka University has discovered a promising way to help doctors predict and possibly ...

This longitudinal study shows that a relative increase in baseline serum creatinine by ≥ 101% compared with the levels measured at the time of nephrology consultation is an independent predictor ...

supereva.it Objectives: To document the relation between serum creatinine concentration and body mass index in elite athletes from five different sports, and to study potential differences among ...