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The impact of heat exposure on patients with end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) is of growing concern in the context of climate change. In this study, we investigated the association of heat exposure with hospitalization and mortality, and how the risk of these adverse health outcomes varied by climate region in the US.Methods
We obtained hospitalization and mortality data for patients with ESKD receiving in-center hemodialysis treatment between 2012 and 2018 at Fresenius Kidney Care facilities located within the contiguous US. We used the treatment facility location to assign heat exposure using maximum universal thermal climate index temperature data. We conducted a space-time-stratified case-crossover study using conditional Poisson regression with distributed la"],"journal":["Environmental health : a global access science source"],"pubmed_title":["Risk of hospitalization and mortality across US climate regions following extreme heat exposure in patients with end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) receiving in-center hemodialysis: a space-time-stratified case-crossover analysis."],"pmcid":["PMC12797976"],"funding_grant_id":["1828910","R01 HS029890","R01HS029890-01A1"],"pubmed_authors":["Sapkota A","Raimann JG","Cruz R","Usvyat LA","He H","Maddux FW","Kotanko P","Liang M","Sapkota AR","Song H","Sieck NE","Salawitch RJ"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Risk of hospitalization and mortality across US climate regions following extreme heat exposure in patients with end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) receiving in-center hemodialysis: a space-time-stratified case-crossover analysis.","description":"Background
The impact of heat exposure on patients with end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) is of growing concern in the context of climate change. In this study, we investigated the association of heat exposure with hospitalization and mortality, and how the risk of these adverse health outcomes varied by climate region in the US.Methods
We obtained hospitalization and mortality data for patients with ESKD receiving in-center hemodialysis treatment between 2012 and 2018 at Fresenius Kidney Care facilities located within the contiguous US. We used the treatment facility location to assign heat exposure using maximum universal thermal climate index temperature data. We conducted a space-time-stratified case-crossover study using conditional Poisson regression with distributed la","dates":{"release":"2025-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2025 Dec","modification":"2026-06-06T15:54:30.281Z","creation":"2026-06-02T03:09:27.02Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC12797976","cross_references":{"pubmed":["41350691"],"doi":["10.1186/s12940-025-01249-5"]}}