Acute Kidney Injury Due to Diarrheal Illness Requiring Hospitalization: Data from the National Inpatient Sample.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Diarrheal illness is a major reason for hospitalization, but data on consequent acute kidney injury (AKI) are sparse.

Objective

To determine the incidence of AKI in infectious and non-infectious diarrheal illness requiring hospitalization and to identify correlates and outcomes of diarrhea-associated AKI.

Design

Using data from the 2012 National Inpatient Sample (NIS), we created a cohort of patients with a primary diagnosis of diarrheal illness. Diarrheal illness, disease correlates, and AKI were defined by ICD-9 diagnosis codes. We used logistic regression with backward variable selection to determine factors independently associated with AKI in infectious and non-infectious diarrheal illness, as well as to determine the association of AKI with in-hospita

SUBMITTER: Bradshaw C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6109014 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature