kidney {PBImisc}

Graft function after kidney transplantation

Description

Artificial dataset (subset from real dataset with some random modifications)

Usage

data(kidney)

Format

data.frame with 334 obs. and 16 variables

recipient.age, donor.age

Age od donor and recipient

CIT

Cold ischemia time

discrepancy.AB, discrepancy.DR

discrepancies in AB and DR antibodies

therapy

scheme of immunosuppression

diabetes

diabetes

bpl.drugs

number of drugs for blood pressure lowering

MDRD7, MDRD30, MDRD3, MDRD6, MDRD12, MDRD24, MDRD36, MDRD60

MDRD (Modification of Diet in Renal Disease) as a estiamtor of glomerular filtration rate (GFR) from serum creatinine, measured 7, 30 days and 3, 6, 12, 24, 36 and 60 months after kidney transplantation

Details

Example of longitudinal study, note that graft for all patients survives 5 years after kidney transplantation.

Source

Artificial dataset generated to be consistent with Maria M. study

Examples

data(kidney)
boxplotInTime(kidney[,9:16], colnames(kidney[,9:16]), additional=TRUE)