Health Care Utilization Among Pregnant Women With Pre-existing Kidney Disease: A Retrospective Cohort Analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Rationale & objective

Pregnant women with prepregnancy chronic kidney disease (CKD) are underdiagnosed and experience adverse outcomes. Limited research exists on peripregnancy health care utilization by women with evidence of CKD.

Study design

Retrospective cohort analysis.

Setting & participants

Women with laboratory signs of prepregnancy CKD who had a pregnancy event between January 1, 2016, and March 1, 2023, at Montefiore Health System in Bronx, NY, were included.

Exposure & outcomes

We investigated rates of CKD diagnosis, adverse maternal and fetal outcomes, and peripregnancy health care utilization among a sample of women with evidence of prepregnancy CKD.

Analytical approach

We tested the proportion of women with laboratory signs of CKD who had a

SUBMITTER: Gupta S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12677166 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature