Conversion Help For ACR

[GoodHealthIsAJourney]

My lab measures Urine Albumin to Creatinine Ratio by mg/g creat (LabCorp). Everything I read and hear measures as 1+, 2+ and 3+. Do you know how to make the conversion? For instance, my ACR was 211. Where would that fall on the 1+, 2+, 3+ scale? Thanks!

[RoxanneKidney]

Zero to 30 is 1, 31 to 300 is 2, and anything over 300 is 3.....I think....so you are 2

[milo_miller]

What you say has nothing to do with ACR.

1+,2+ etc means your daily protein leaking quantity in the urine.

[orangecity41 NKF Ambassador]

Here is a link to information on ACR calculation from National Kidney Foundation.

kidney.org/kidneydisease/si...

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It's not the lab that determines which measurements to make, it's which urine tests your doctor ordered. On my lab request from my doctor, there are choices he checks off like U/A dipstick; Urine random protein & creatinine; and reflex to micro. I go to Labcorp also and on my report, the categories for Urine tests are labeled, Urinalysis Routine, Urinalysis Complete, Urinalysis Reflex, and Protein Total w/ Creatinine Random. I looked at several of my lab reports and the protein number that shows 1+, 2+ etc was under Urinalysis Complete and Urinalysis Reflex.