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A doctor speaks with a patient in his office.
How do you check for kidney disease? We routinely check for chronic kidney disease with two tests, a blood test and a urine test. The blood test measures how well the kidneys are filtering the blood and that's called the GFR. A GFR above 60 is considered normal.The GFR below 60 may mean that you have chronic kidney disease. The urine test measures protein in the urine.Protein is a component of the blood which doesn't normally pass through the kidney filter into the urine.If we detect protein in the urine it means the kidney filter is damaged and may reflect chronic kidney disease.