Hi,
In looking hack at some lab results from last year/2023, I had a spot UACR done - the micro albumin piece was reported as “<12 mg/L” (with the normal range for this piece noted as <19). and the urine creatinine as “28.8mg/dl” and the overall result said “no value - microAlbumin concentration too low to calculate the albumin/creatinine ratio.” This was at a local health system’s lab
Flash forward to this year and the local health system switched to labcorp for their testing. I had a UACR done last month and the micro albumin result was <3 (this piece did not have a reference “normal value”), the urine creatinine was 51.6 mg/dl, (this piece also did not have a mormal reference value ), and the overall ratio was reported as <6, with “normal” range listed as 0-29.
Question is this: if the ratio could be calculated by Labcorp with a micro albumin <3, why couldn’t the other lab calculate it with a higher micro albumin value? And in the 2023 test, the microalbumin value was higher and the creatinine lower -should I have been concerned about that result?