What? I have Stage 3 Kidney Disease!! Talking to patients about GFR and CKD
What is normal GFR? GFR is the glomerular filtration rate. It is the amount of blood filtered by the glomeruli per unit time. We are born with about a million glomeruli. It is reported in milliliters per minute. From the age of 2 to the age of 25 a normal GFR is 125