Pregnancy-Related Acute Kidney Injury in the United States: Clinical Outcomes and Health Care Utilization.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Acute kidney injury (AKI) during pregnancy is a public health problem and is associated with maternal and fetal morbidity and mortality. Clinical outcomes and health care utilization in pregnancy-related AKI, especially in women with diabetes, are not well studied.

Methods

Using data from the 2006 to 2015 Nationwide Inpatient Sample, we identified 42,190,790 pregnancy-related hospitalizations in women aged 15-49 years. We determined factors associated with AKI, including race/ethnicity, and associations between AKI and inpatient mortality, and between AKI and cardiovascular (CV) events, during pregnancy-related hospitalizations. We calculated health care expenditures from pregnancy-related AKI hospitalizations.

Results

Overall, the rate of AKI during pregna

SUBMITTER: Shah S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7158232 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature