azotemia

13:13 Apr 22 

You haven't actually given the Italian context. What does it say? Are these two separate parameters followed by numbers and units of measurement?

20:09 Apr 21 

https://acutecaretesting.org/en/articles/urea-and-the-clinic... says:

Although plasma or serum is used for the analysis, the test is still, somewhat confusingly, commonly referred to as blood urea nitrogen (BUN), and the unit of BUN concentration is mg/dL.

In all other parts of the world, urea is expressed as the whole molecule (not just the nitrogen part of the molecule) in SI units (mmol/L). Since BUN reflects only the nitrogen content of urea (MW 28) and urea measurement reflects the whole of the molecule (MW 60), urea is approximately twice (60/28 = 2.14) that of BUN.

08:45 Apr 21 

Lirka - sorry, that was a typo, thanks for pointing it out. It still doesn't change the question here.

01:42 Apr 21 

HTH

17:25 Apr 20 

wondering whether this might mean that I should use "urea concentration" as indicated here
https://basicmedicalkey.com/nonprotein-nitrogen-compounds/
which says:
Urea N concentration can be converted to urea concentration by multiplying by 2.14, as follows:

and the ratio between BUN and azotemia is in fact 1:2.14 as given in the source (Italian) table.