Proteinuria changes in kidney disease patients with clinical remission during the COVID-19 pandemic.

ABSTRACT:

Backgrounds

Data on how lifestyle changes due to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic have influenced the clinical features of kidney disease patients remain scarce.

Methods

This study retrospectively analyzed clinical variables in patients with stage G1-G4 chronic kidney disease (CKD) with complete or incomplete remission of proteinuria, who were managed in a nephrology outpatient clinic of a university hospital in Tokyo. The clinical variables during the COVID-19 pandemic (term 1, June-July 2020) were compared to those one year before the pandemic (term 0, June-July 2019). The urinary protein excretion (UPE) was used as the primary outcome measure.

Results

This study included 325 patients with stage G1-G4 CKD (mean age 58.5 years old, 37.5% female, 80.6%

SUBMITTER: Tsuboi N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8064597 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature