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Risk factors and prognosis for COVID-19-induced acute kidney injury: a meta-analysis.
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- Global geographic and socioeconomic disparities in COVID-associated acute kidney injury: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Journal of global health · 2025Pooled it
- Risk factors for acute kidney injury in COVID-19 patients: an updated systematic review and meta-analysis.Renal failure · 2023Pooled it
- Incidence, risk factors and outcomes of acute kidney injury among COVID-19 patients: A systematic review of systematic reviews.Frontiers in medicine · 2022Pooled it
- COVID-19 and Acute Kidney Injury: A Systematic Review.Frontiers in medicine · 2022Pooled it
- Increased risk of acute kidney injury in coronavirus disease patients with renin-angiotensin-aldosterone-system blockade use: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Scientific reports · 2021Pooled it
- Systematic review and subgroup analysis of the incidence of acute kidney injury (AKI) in patients with COVID-19.BMC nephrology · 2021Pooled it
- Risk Factors for Acute Kidney Injury in Adult Patients With COVID-19: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Frontiers in medicine · 2021Pooled it
- Four-organ SOFA score as a potential tool to triage use of continuous kidney replacement therapy in COVID-19 patients with acute kidney injury: a retrospective two-center study.Renal failure · 2026Article
- Acute and chronic kidney injury following COVID-19 infection and vaccination: a narrative review.European journal of translational myology · 2026Article
- Factors Associated with Prolonged Mechanical Ventilation and 30-Day Mortality in Intubated COVID-19 Patients with Invasive Fungal Infections: A Retrospective Observational Study.Tropical medicine and infectious disease · 2025Article
- Kidney damage associated with COVID-19: from the acute to the chronic phase.Renal failure · 2024Review
- The short-term and long-term prognosis of discharged COVID-19 patients in Guangdong during the first wave of pandemic.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Usefulness of the CHAMicroorganisms · 2024Article
- Retrospective Analysis of Acute Kidney Injury in COVID-19 Infection: A Single-Center Study From Kerala.Cureus · 2024Article
- COVID-19 and Comorbidities: What Has Been Unveiled by Metabolomics?Metabolites · 2024Review
- Acute Kidney Injury and Chronic Kidney Disease and Their Impacts on Prognosis among Patients with Severe COVID-19 Pneumonia: An Expert Center Case-Cohort Study.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Article
- Acute kidney injury in children with moderate-severe COVID-19 and multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children: a referral center experience.Pediatric nephrology (Berlin, Germany) · 2024Article
- Impact of Acute Kidney Injury on the COVID-19 In-Hospital Mortality in Octogenarian Patients: Insights from the COVOCA Study.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
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- A modified renal angina index in critically ill patients with COVID-19.Renal failure · 2023Article
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Abstract
objectiveTo analyse the incidence, risk factors and impact of acute kidney injury (AKI) on the prognosis of patients with COVID-19.
designMeta-analysis. DATA SOURCES: PubMed, Embase, CNKI and MedRxiv of Systematic Reviews from 1 January 2020 to 15 May 2020. STUDY SELECTION: Studies examining the following demographics and outcomes were included: patients' age; sex; incidence of and risk factors for AKI and their impact on prognosis; COVID-19 disease type and incidence of continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT) administration during COVID-19 infection.
resultsA total of 79 research articles, including 49 692 patients with COVID-19, met the systemic evaluation criteria. The mortality rate and incidence of AKI in patients with COVID-19 in China were significantly lower than those in patients with COVID-19 outside China. A significantly higher proportion of patients with COVID-19 from North America were aged ≥65 years and also developed AKI. European patients with COVID-19 had significantly higher mortality and a higher CRRT rate than patients from other regions. Further analysis of the risk factors for COVID-19 combined with AKI showed that age ≥60 years and severe COVID-19 were independent risk factors for AKI, with an OR of 3.53, 95% CI (2.92-4.25) and an OR of 6.07, 95% CI (2.53-14.58), respectively. The CRRT rate in patients with severe COVID-19 was significantly higher than in patients with non-severe COVID-19, with an OR of 6.60, 95% CI (2.83-15.39). The risk of death in patients with COVID-19 and AKI was significantly increased, with an OR of 11.05, 95% CI (9.13-13.36).
conclusionAKI was a common and serious complication of COVID-19. Older age and having severe COVID-19 were independent risk factors for AKI. The risk of in-hospital death was significantly increased in patients with COVID-19 complicated by AKI.
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