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How do you tell if your kidney is starting to fail?
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See below: The doctor can order a serum creatinine, and calculate the GFR [glomerular filtration rate] if the rate is lower than normal then your kidneys correspondingly are not clearing the blood of all waste generated.
Answered 6/10/2014
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