eGFR

eGFR

Usage

egfr_2021(crea_mumoll, age, sex)

Arguments

crea_mumoll

Numeric. Creatinin in \(\mu\)mol/l

age

Numeric. Age in years

sex

Character. Sex either "Male" or "Female"

Value

eGFR in mL/min/1.73m\(^2\) as described in https://www.kidney.org/content/ckd-epi-creatinine-equation-2021. The conversion factor of creatinin is 1 (\(\mu\)mol/l) = 88.42 (mg/dL)

References

Inker, L. A., Eneanya, N. D., Coresh, J., Tighiouart, H., Wang, D., Sang, Y., ... & Levey, A. S. (2021). New creatinine-and cystatin C–based equations to estimate GFR without race. New England Journal of Medicine, 385(19), 1737-1749.

Examples

data <-
   expand.grid(crea = c(50, 200, 1000),
               age = c(20, 60),
               sex= c("Female", "Male"), stringsAsFactors = FALSE)
data$egfr <- egfr_2021(data$crea, data$age, data$sex)