Epidemiology and outcome of community-acquired acute kidney injury
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Stephen Riley; Rhodri Pyart; Bnar Talabani; Soma Meran; Soha Zouwail; Aled O. Phillips
- Source
- Nephrology. 19:282-287
- Subject
- medicine.medical_specialty
Pediatrics
business.industry
Incidence (epidemiology)
Acute kidney injury
Renal function
Context (language use)
General Medicine
Disease
urologic and male genital diseases
medicine.disease
female genital diseases and pregnancy complications
Nephrology
Epidemiology
Cohort
Medicine
business
Kidney disease
- Language
- ISSN
- 1320-5358
Aims: Very little data exist regarding community-acquired acute renal injury (CA-AKI). We have identified and characterized a patient cohort with CA-AKI, and documented its impact on renal function and patient mortality. Methods: Using the database of the Medical Biochemistry Department of the Cardiff and Vale University Health Board we identified all patients with CA-AKI over a 1 month period in 2009. Follow-up biochemical and clinical data were used to determine short-term (3 months) and long-term (3 years) outcomes. Comparisons were made to a random and an age/sex matched group. Results: Patients with CA-AKI were older than a non-AKI cohort (70.3 vs 57.1 years; P