Creatinine

[Jay72]

I have a question.  As I have been reading over the last few months and people post their lab results some have a creatinine of 7.2 for example where mine is 790.  How do you do the conversion?  If anyone knows that would be great.

Jay

[okarol]

I found this but have no idea if it's accurate:

To convert Creatinine readings:-
Divide the mol/L by 88.4 to get mg/dL.
Multiply the mg/dL by 88.4 to get mol/L.

To convert Creatinine clearance readings:-
Divide the ml/s by 0.0167 to get ml/min.
Multiply the ml/min L by 0.0167 to get ml/s.

From http://www.diabetesexplained.com/diabetic-conversions.html

[Jay72]

Thank you very much, I have been looking for a while when I think of it and I never thought to look on a diabetes web site, as I am not a diabetic.

Thanks again,

Jay

[okarol]

I just used yahoo search for creatinine + conversion - so you might find other info if you do that.

[Jay72]

Are you ever quick.. thanks again I will try, have a good night.

[okarol]

found this too:

I *THINK* (and I could have this wrong) that what we call a creatinine reading of 120 is what you would call 1.2  - can anyone confirm that I've got this correct?

120 is not 1.2 
here's a clinical unit conversion :   http://dwjay.tripod.com/conversion.html
to convert from the large numbers (i.e. 120, 130, ..1200) to the small ones, use (µmol/L) to (mg/dL)
so, 120 would be 1.4

[Jay72]

Yuppers that works too!!

[pelagia]

Below is a table, too from the labtestsonline site.  You can only get to it via a link near the bottom of the page = reference ranges for this test... http://labtestsonline.org/understanding/analytes/creatinine/test.html