An albumin blood test checks your liver and kidney function. Albumin is protein in your blood plasma. Low albumin levels might be the result of kidney disease, liver disease, inflammation or infections. High albumin levels are usually the result of dehydration or severe diarrhea.
Albuminuria is a sign of kidney disease and means that you have too much albumin in your urine. Albumin is a protein found in the blood. A healthy kidney doesn’t let albumin pass from the blood into the urine. A damaged kidney lets some albumin pass into the urine.
The most common causes of hypoalbuminemia include: Liver disease. Heart failure.
Other causes of hypoalbuminemia include:
Other causes of hypoalbuminemia include:
- Stress.
- Thyroid disease.
- Diabetes.
- Nephrotic syndrome.
- Lupus.
- Cirrhosis.
Causes
- Amyloidosis (buildup of abnormal proteins in your organs)
- Dehydration.
- Hepatitis B.
- Hepatitis C.
- HIV/AIDS.
- Monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance (MGUS)
- Multiple myeloma.
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