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how often are EFGR tests inaccurate?

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they react to things like dehydration,medicine,even if you eat before the lab.inaaacurate?changes with situation is more like it.my egfr bounces up and down like a ball but seems to stay in a certain range so i hope that helps a little.

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orangecity41NKF Ambassador in reply toS_dillow

Agree with you. I tend to take an average. Believe too that medicine changes might possibly effect the test results.

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