Kidney Disease And Gfr Levels. Talk with your health care provider about how to keep your kidney health at this level. Current kidney disease improving global outcomes guidelines recommend measurement of serum creatinine to estimate gfr as the initial step in gfr evaluation.
As the chronic kidney disease progresses the gfr decreases. When gfr is less than 15 ml min it means you lost about 90 to 85 percent of kidney function and developed end stage kidney disease that need dialysis to take wastes of the body out. You ll need to be matched with the right donor before a transplant can take place.
If creatinine goes up it s a bad sign.
Normal gfr range means normal kidney function while low gfr level means that your kidney function is low. In general a good gfr number is above 60 and a good creatinine number is below 1 2. The stages of chronic kidney disease ckd your gfr number tells you how much kidney function you have as kidney disease gets worse the gfr number goes down. Normal gfr varies according to age sex and body size.