Whether a 33-year-old man with blood creatinine 108μmol/L has kidney disease depends mainly on the cause of creatinine elevation. If it is caused by physiological reasons such as high muscle content or eating more meat in general, it is not kidney disease at this time; if it is caused by pathological reasons such as acute kidney injury or chronic renal insufficiency, it is kidney disease.
Normal serum creatinine ranges from 53 to 106 μmol/L in men and 44 to 97 μmol/L in women. Therefore, creatinine 108μmol/L is mildly elevated.
1. Physiological reasons: some patients with elevated creatinine may be due to their high muscle content, or usually eat more meat, exercise more caused by routine urinalysis and ultrasound of the urinary system and other related tests do not see any abnormality, and adjust the lifestyle creatinine may return to normal, this is not a kidney disease.
2. Pathological reasons: acute kidney injury caused by various reasons, or chronic renal insufficiency caused by glomerulonephritis, diabetic nephropathy, hypertensive renal damage and other diseases may lead to creatinine elevation, which is considered to be nephropathy, and needs to be treated according to the cause.
If you find elevated creatinine, it is recommended to go to regular hospitals in time, improve the examination to clarify the cause of the disease, and then give targeted treatment or therapy under the guidance of the doctor.