Serum Creatinine Levels Before, During, and After Pregnancy

Ziv Harel; Eric McArthur; Michelle Hladunewich; Jade S Dirk; Ron Wald; Amit X Garg; Joel G Ray

doi:10.1001/jama.2018.17948

Serum Creatinine Levels Before, During, and After Pregnancy

JAMA. 2019 Jan 15;321(2):205-207. doi: 10.1001/jama.2018.17948.

Authors

Ziv Harel¹, Eric McArthur², Michelle Hladunewich³, Jade S Dirk², Ron Wald¹, Amit X Garg⁴, Joel G Ray⁵

Affiliations

¹ Division of Nephrology, St Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
² Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
³ Division of Nephrology, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
⁴ Division of Nephrology, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada.
⁵ Department of Medicine, St Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Abstract

This study uses Canadian administrative health databases to estimate gestational age–specific serum creatinine levels before, during, and after pregnancy among women without antecedent kidney disease.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Adolescent
Adult
Creatinine / blood*
Female
Glomerular Filtration Rate
Humans
Kidney / physiology*
Middle Aged
Postpartum Period / blood
Pregnancy / blood*
Pregnancy / physiology
Reference Values
Young Adult

Substances

Creatinine

Grants and funding

CIHR/Canada