Tag: kidney function

Numbness, burning, or tingling in someone with diabetes deserves an explanation. Diabetic peripheral neuropathy is one possibility, but vitamin B12 deficiency, thyroid disease, kidney disease, nerve compression, and other problems can produce similar symptoms. More […]

Methotrexate monitoring checks treatment safety as well as the condition being treated. Your joints may feel better while a blood-count, liver, or kidney result still needs attention. That is why scheduled laboratory follow-up remains important […]

Chronic kidney disease testing uses two complementary measurements: an eGFR test, usually calculated first from serum creatinine, and a urine albumin test, most often reported as the urine albumin-to-creatinine ratio (UACR). The eGFR test estimates […]

Lupus nephritis monitoring follows urine protein, kidney filtration, urine sediment, and the clinical picture over time. Anti-dsDNA and complement add context, but reassuring antibody results cannot rule out kidney inflammation, and abnormal antibodies do not […]

Selected 25-hydroxyvitamin D, calcium, albumin, phosphorus, and parathyroid hormone (PTH) tests can help clarify the pattern. Ulta Lab Tests provides the linked laboratory options for a plan developed with your healthcare professional. This information is […]

How calcium, PTH, vitamin D, kidney function, and urine calcium work together to clarify a possible parathyroid disorder. Primary hyperparathyroidism (PHPT) occurs when one or more parathyroid glands release hormone inappropriately for the calcium concentration […]

Heart failure blood tests help answer different parts of the diagnostic puzzle. BNP or NT-proBNP can show that the heart is under increased wall stress, while kidney, electrolyte, blood-count, iron, thyroid, glucose, lipid, and liver […]

A blood-pressure cuff detects elevated pressure inside your arteries. Hypertension lab tests answer different questions: they can help show whether high blood pressure is affecting the kidneys, whether glucose or lipid abnormalities are adding cardiovascular […]

Chronic kidney disease, commonly called CKD, occurs when the kidneys have a persistent structural or functional abnormality that affects health. CKD is not defined by one isolated blood test. Under current kidney guidelines, evidence of […]