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This test measures the amount of the protein albumin in your blood. Your liver makes albumin. Albumin carries substances such as hormones, drugs, and enzymes throughout your body.This test can help diagnose, evaluate, and watch kidney and liver conditions. When your kidneys begin to fail, albumin starts to leak into your urine. This causes a low albumin level in your blood.our liver makes albumin. Albumin carries substances such as hormones, drugs, and enzymes throughout your body. This test can help diagnose, evaluate, and watch kidney and liver conditions. When your kidneys begin to fail, albumin starts to leak into your urine.
Serum albumin, the albumin measured from your blood, has long been used as a market of nutritional status in all patients regardless of kidney function. Albumin is a protein which your body uses as a carrier for other substances such as electrolytes, hormones, and fatty acids. Albumin is also the main contributor to oncotic pressure, which means that it helps keep fluid in your blood vessel rather than allow it to leak into your tissues which causes swelling or edema.