Calculate albuminuria categories

Usage

nephro.albuminuria_category(
  albuminuria,
  albuminuria_units = "mg/g",
  semiquantitative_values = "forbidden"
)

Arguments

albuminuria: Numeric vector. Urine albumin, could be expressed in "mg/day" (24-hour urine collection), "mg/mmol" (UACR) or "mg/g" (UACR). Units of measurement should be defined in variable albuminuria_units (if not defined explicitly by user, the default value is "mg/g").
albuminuria_units: Character string. Units in which urine albumin is measured. Could be one of the following: "mg/day", "mg/mmol" or "mg/g".
semiquantitative_values: Character string. Defines whether semiquantitative values are allowed in the data. If "any", all semiquantitative values ('<30', '30-300', '>300') and any numeric values (29, 30, 35, etc) will be classified into A categories (NB! both '30-300' and '30-299' will be classified as A2). If "only_limits", only limiting semiquantitative values ('<30', '>300') will be classified into A categories, but middle semiquantitative values ('30-300') will be omitted; but numeric values (29, 30, 35, etc) will be classified into A categories. If "forbidden", only numeric values will be classified into A categories.

Value

string albuminuria category.

Details

Calculate albuminuria categories (A1, A2, A3) based on albuminuria values.

Citation: Bikbov B. kidney.epi: Kidney-Related Functions for Clinical and Epidemiological Research. Scientific-Tools.Org, https://Scientific-Tools.Org. DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.kidney.epi

Author

Programming: Boris Bikbov https://www.linkedin.com/in/boris-bikbov.

Examples

# for a single patient
nephro.albuminuria_category (albuminuria = 25, albuminuria_units = "mg/g")
#> [1] "A1"
# for a dataset - see vignettes for details
# nephro.albuminuria_category (albuminuria = dta$alb, albuminuria_units = "mg/g")