Trend of increased hospitalizations seen for patients with AKI despite diabetes status

While nearly 40% of all hospitalizations for acute kidney injury during a 14-year period were for patients with diabetes, a recently published analysis in the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report also highlighted a trend concerning the overall rate of hospitalizations for acute kidney injury.

“The rate of hospitalizations with acute kidney injury has increased significantly in men and women in the United States from 2000 to 2014, regardless of diabetes status,” Meda E. Pavkov, MD, PhD, co-author of the study, told Healio Nephrology.

To estimate kidney injury trends, irrespective of patients’ diabetes status, Meda and colleagues from the CDC’s Division for Diabetes Translation analyzed data from the National Inpatient Sample and the National Health Interview Surveys for the years 2000 to 2014. Regardless of patients’ diabetes status, the authors calculated all acute kidney injury hospitalizations and dialysis-treated acute kidney injury hospitalizations per 1,000 patients by dividing the estimated number of acute kidney injury hospitalizations by the overall estimated population aged 20 years or older.

Investigators found age-standardized rates of acute kidney injury hospitalizations increased by 139% among adults with diabetes while these rates increased by 230% among patients without diabetes. – by Jake Scott

Reference: Pavkov ME, et al. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2018;doi:10.15585/mmwr.mm6710a2.

Disclosures: The authors report no relevant financial disclosures.