You've received your BMP Test results, but you may still be uncertain about whether they fall within the normal range. Continue reading this section to gain clarity on whether your results are within the expected range or not.
What Does BMP Blood Test Results Mean?
The results of a BMP blood test may vary based on the overall health history, age, gender, lifestyle conditions, past, and family history of certain critical health complications, dietary choices, medications, and any ongoing treatment measures.
The BMP test normal range may vary from lab to lab based on the testing method leveraged and it might be different for the 8 chemical components.
The normal BMP levels for glucose, calcium, electrolytes and other salts include:
What Conditions Can Cause High BMP Blood Levels?
High blood glucose levels can be caused due to: [1]
- Primary and secondary illnesses
- Excessive food consumption
- Inadequate diabetes medication consumption
- Hypoglycemia over-treatment
- Steroid medications
High calcium levels can be caused due to: [2]
- Inadequate fluid levels in the body
- Cancers of the lungs, breast and other organs that have spread to neighbouring body organs
- Excessive Vitamin D content in your blood
- Overactive thyroid gland
- Paget disease, tuberculosis, sarcoidosis
High Carbon Dioxide levels can be caused due to: [3]
- Lung diseases
- Cushing’s syndrome
- Kidney failure
- Metabolic Alkalosis
High BUN levels can be caused due to: [4]
- Urinary tract obstruction
- Congestive heart failure
- Gastrointestinal bleeding
- High-protein diet
High creatinine levels can be caused due to: [5]
- Drug-induced nephrotoxicity
- Kidney infection
- Glomerulonephritis
- Diabetes, Hypertension and other lifestyle disorders
- Cardiovascular diseases - Atherosclerosis, and Congestive Heart Failure
- Blockage in the urinary tract
High Sodium levels can be caused due to: [6]
- Adrenal gland disorder
- Kidney diseases
- Diabetes Insipidus
High Chloride levels can be caused due to: [7]
- Too much intake of saline solutions and diet rich in salt
- Severe diarrhoea
- Chronic kidney diseases
- Bromide poisoning
- Metabolic acidosis
- Respiratory alkalosis
- Carbonic anhydrase inhibitor medications
High Potassium levels can be caused due to: [8]
- Kidney diseases
- Potassium-rich diet
- Intake of excessive potassium supplements
- Inadequately managed diabetes
What Conditions Can Cause Low BMP Blood Levels?
Low blood glucose levels can be caused due to: [9]
- Excessive insulin
- Fat, protein and fibre content in your diet
- Warm and humid weather
- Puberty
- Menstruation
- Excessive alcohol consumption
Low calcium levels can be caused due to: [10]
- Vitamin D deficiency
- Vitamin D resistance
- Hypoparathyroidism due to surgery, autoimmune diseases and genetic causes
- Advanced-stage renal and liver diseases
- Pseudohypoparathyroidism
- Metastatic infiltration of the parathyroid gland
- Hypomagnesemia
- Sclerotic metastases
- Hungry bone syndrome
- Citrated blood transfusions
- Fanconi syndrome
Low Carbon Dioxide levels can be caused due to: [11]
- Addison disease
- Diabetic ketoacidosis
- Metabolic ketoacidosis
- Respiratory alkalosis
Low BUN levels can be caused due to:[12]
- Low protein diet
- Overhydration
- Liver diseases
Low creatinine levels can be caused due to: [13]
- Low muscle mass
- Low body weight
- Chronic kidney diseases
- Reduced kidney function
- Malnutrition
Low Sodium levels can be caused due to: [14]
- Diarrhea
- Vomiting
- Kidney and Liver diseases
- Heart, Lungs and Brain diseases
- Addison’s disease
Low Chloride levels can be caused due to: [15]
- Diarrhoea and vomiting
- Excessive sweating
- Chronic respiratory acidosis
- Kidney problems
- Syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone excretion (SIADH)
- Metabolic alkalosis
Low Potassium levels can be caused due to: [16]
- Diarrhoea and vomiting
- Eating disorders
- Hyperaldosteronism
- Overuse of laxatives
- Chronic kidney diseases
- Low magnesium levels
- Hypokalemic Periodic Paralysis
- Bartter Syndrome
