In older adults, higher serum creatinine levels are associated with male sex, black race, history of diabetes or heart attack, and the use of specific medications such as cimetidine and certain diuretics.
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Clinicians should interpret creatinine cautiously in these older subgroups; leaves open need for GFR-validated reference adjustments.
Salive et al. (1995) studied this question.
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