height

<p>character vector of sex ("F" for female or "M" for male)</p>

<p>A vectorised function to calculate adult ideal body weight based on height and sex.
This function assumes ideal BMI of 21.5 for females and 23 for males.</p>

A set of vectorised functions to calculate medical equations used in transplantation,
focused mainly on transplantation of abdominal organs. These functions include donor and recipient
risk indices as used by NHS Blood & Transplant, OPTN/UNOS and Eurotransplant, tools for
quantifying HLA mismatches, functions for calculating estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR),
a function to calculate the APRI (AST to platelet ratio) score used in initial screening of suitability to receive a
transplant from a hepatitis C seropositive donor and some biochemical unit converter functions.
All functions are designed to work with either US or international units.
References for the equations are provided in the vignettes and function documentation.

ibw: Ideal body weight

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