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WORLD JOURNAL OF UROLOGY
Volume 39, Issue 8, Pages 2987-2993Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00345-020-03567-4
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COVID-19; Chronic kidney disease; Comorbidity; Mortality; Virus; Pandemic
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This study evaluated the mortality risk of CKD patients infected with COVID-19 and found that CKD was a significant independent predictor of mortality, along with older age, male gender, and hypertension. The mortality rate for COVID-19 was significantly higher in CKD patients.
Purpose To evaluate mortality risk of CKD patients infected with COVID-19, and assess shared characteristics associated with health disparities in CKD outcome. Methods We extracted the data from a case series of 7624 patients presented at Mount Sinai Health System, in New York for testing between 3/28/2020 and 4/16/2020. De-identified patient data set is being produced by the Scientific Computing department and made available to the Mount Sinai research community at the following website: https://msdw.mountsinai.org/. Results Of 7624 COVID-19 patients, 7.8% (n = 597) had CKD on hospital admission, and 11.2% (n = 856) died of COVID-19 infection. CKD patients were older, more likely to have diabetes, hypertension, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), were current or former smokers, had a longer time to discharge, and had worse survival compared to non-CKD patients (p < 0.05). COVID-19 mortality rate was significantly higher in CKD patients (23.1% vs 10.2%) with a 1.51 greater odds of dying (95% CI: 1.19-1.90). Controlling for demographic, behavioral, and clinical covariates, the logistic regression analysis showed significant and consistent effects of CKD, older age, male gender, and hypertension with mortality (p < 0.05). Conclusion CKD was a significant independent predictor of COVID-19 mortality, along with older age, male gender, and hypertension. Future research will investigate the effects of COVID-19 on long-term renal function.
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