1. Achieved blood pressure post-acute kidney injury and risk of adverse outcomes after AKI: A prospective parallel cohort study.
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McCoy I, Brar S, Liu KD, Go AS, Hsu RK, Chinchilli VM, Coca SG, Garg AX, Himmelfarb J, Ikizler TA, Kaufman J, Kimmel PL, Lewis JB, Parikh CR, Siew ED, Ware LB, Zeng H, and Hsu CY
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- Blood Pressure, Blood Pressure Determination methods, Blood Pressure Determination statistics & numerical data, Cohort Studies, Female, Hospitalization statistics & numerical data, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Mortality, North America epidemiology, Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care, Prognosis, Risk Factors, Survivors, Acute Kidney Injury complications, Acute Kidney Injury diagnosis, Acute Kidney Injury therapy, Heart Failure diagnosis, Heart Failure etiology, Heart Failure mortality, Hypertension diagnosis, Hypertension epidemiology, Hypertension etiology, Long Term Adverse Effects diagnosis, Long Term Adverse Effects etiology, Long Term Adverse Effects mortality, Risk Assessment methods, Risk Assessment statistics & numerical data
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Background: There has recently been considerable interest in better understanding how blood pressure should be managed after an episode of hospitalized AKI, but there are scant data regarding the associations between blood pressure measured after AKI and subsequent adverse outcomes. We hypothesized that among AKI survivors, higher blood pressure measured three months after hospital discharge would be associated with worse outcomes. We also hypothesized these associations between blood pressure and outcomes would be similar among those who survived non-AKI hospitalizations., Methods: We quantified how systolic blood pressure (SBP) observed three months after hospital discharge was associated with risks of subsequent hospitalized AKI, loss of kidney function, mortality, and heart failure events among 769 patients in the prospective ASSESS-AKI cohort study who had hospitalized AKI. We repeated this analysis among the 769 matched non-AKI ASSESS-AKI enrollees. We then formally tested for AKI interaction in the full cohort of 1538 patients to determine if these associations differed among those who did and did not experience AKI during the index hospitalization., Results: Among 769 patients with AKI, 42 % had subsequent AKI, 13 % had loss of kidney function, 27 % died, and 18 % had heart failure events. SBP 3 months post-hospitalization did not have a stepwise association with the risk of subsequent AKI, loss of kidney function, mortality, or heart failure events. Among the 769 without AKI, there was also no stepwise association with these risks. In formal interaction testing using the full cohort of 1538 patients, hospitalized AKI did not modify the association between post-discharge SBP and subsequent risks of adverse clinical outcomes., Conclusions: Contrary to our first hypothesis, we did not observe that higher stepwise blood pressure measured three months after hospital discharge with AKI was associated with worse outcomes. Our data were consistent with our second hypothesis that the association between blood pressure measured three months after hospital discharge and outcomes among AKI survivors is similar to that observed among those who survived non-AKI hospitalizations., (© 2021. The Author(s).)
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- 2021
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