renal: Renal transplantation data
Description
This is a dataset on 407 patients suffering from chronic kidney disease who
underwent a primary renal transplantation with a graft from a deceased or
living donor in the University Hospital of the Catholic University of Leuven
(Belgium) between 21 January 1983 and 16 August 2000. Chronic kidney (renal)
disease is a progressive loss of renal function over a period of months or
years through five stages. Each stage is a progression through an abnormally
low and progressively worse glomerular filtration rate (GFR). The dataset
records 3 repeated measures (2 continuous and 1 binary), and an event time.
Format
This is a list with 4 data frames:
prot: repeated measurement data for proteinuria (binary) that
measures whether the kidneys succeed in sustaining the proteins in the
blood and not discard them in the urine. haem: repeated measurement data for blood haematocrit level
(continuous) that measures whether the kidneys produce adequate amounts of
the hormone erythropoietin that regulates the red blood cell production. gfr: repeated measurement data for GFR (continuous) that
measures the filtration rate of the kidneys. surv: time-to-event data for renal graft failure.
All datasets have the common data columns, which are in long
format for the 3 longitudinal data data frames, and 1-per-subject for the
time-to-event data frame:
The longitudinal datasets only contain 2 further columns:
Source
Dr Dimitris Rizopoulos (d.rizopoulos@erasmusmc.nl).References
Rizopoulos D, Ghosh, P. A Bayesian semiparametric multivariate joint model
for multiple longitudinal outcomes and a time-to-event. Stat Med.
2011; 30(12): 1366-80.