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blood test, this test measures the amount, albumin in serum, clear fluid portion of blood, blood is drawn, a vein, venipuncture, capillary, blood sample, centrifuge to separate the cells, serum, health care provider, advise you, to discontinue drugs, affect the test, drugs, increase albumin measurements include anabolic steroids, androgens, growth hormone, insulin, this test helps in determining, a patient has liver disease, kidney disease, not enough protein is absorbed by the body, albumin, protein, the highest concentration in plasma, albumin transports many small molecules, in the blood, bilirubin, calcium, progesterone, drugs, of prime importance in maintaining the oncotic pressure, the blood, keeping the fluid from leaking out, tissues, unlike small molecules sodium, chloride, concentration of albumin, in the blood is much greater than it, in the extracellular fluid, albumin is synthesized by the liver, decreased serum albumin, result from liver disease, result from kidney disease, allows albumin to escape, urine, decreased albumin, explained by malnutrition, a low protein diet, normal range is 3.4 to 5.4 g/dl, normal values, from laboratory to laboratory, lower-than-normal levels of albumin, ascites, burns, extensive, glomerulonephritis, liver disease, hepatitis, cirrhosis, hepatocellular necrosis "tissue death", malabsorption syndromes, crohn's disease, sprue, whipple's disease, malnutrition, nephrotic syndrome, additional conditions under which the test performed, diabetic nephropathy/sclerosis, hepatic encephalopathy, hepatorenal syndrome, membranous nephropathy, tropical sprue, wilson's disease , receiving large amounts of intravenous fluids, results of this test inaccurate, albumin, decreased, pregnancy.