{"id":41685,"date":"2018-09-10T11:29:49","date_gmt":"2018-09-10T11:29:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=41685"},"modified":"2018-09-10T11:29:49","modified_gmt":"2018-09-10T11:29:49","slug":"suffering-from-critical-illness-for-a-while-you-could-be-at-risk-of-kidney-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/suffering-from-critical-illness-for-a-while-you-could-be-at-risk-of-kidney-disease\/","title":{"rendered":"Suffering from critical illness for a while, you could be at risk of kidney disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People with acute critical illness have an increased risk of kidney complications and death, finds a study. \u201cPatients with acute critical illness without apparent underlying renal disease a group traditionally considered to be at low risk of renal diseases have clinically relevant long-term renal risks,\u201d wrote Dr. Shih-Ting Huang and Dr. Chia-Hung Kao of Taichung Veterans General Hospital and China Medical University, Taiwan, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Most studies have looked at patients with pre-existing kidney disease, while this study looked at data on 33, 613 Taiwanese patients with critical acute illness and no pre-existing kidney disease compared with 63, 148 controls for a medium-term renal outcome.<\/p>\n<p>More than half of the patients were above 65 years of age and two-thirds had high blood pressure. Patients who had experienced acute kidney illness were at an increased risk of renal complications, developing chronic kidney disease and end-stage renal disease, with septicemia and septic shock being the strongest risk factors.<\/p>\n<p>Of the critically ill patients in the study, 335 developed an end-stage renal disease, with a rate of 21 per 10 000 person-years compared with 4.9 per 10 000 person-years in the control group. Patients who developed chronic kidney disease and end-stage renal disease were at a higher risk of death.<\/p>\n<p>The authors have suggested clinicians to monitor kidney functions at 30-90 day intervals in patients with acute critical illness without preexisting renal disease and then at least on a yearly basis, afterward.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People with acute critical illness have an increased risk of kidney complications and death, finds a study. \u201cPatients with acute critical illness without apparent underlying renal disease a group traditionally considered to be at low risk of renal diseases have clinically relevant long-term renal risks,\u201d wrote Dr. Shih-Ting Huang and Dr. Chia-Hung Kao of Taichung [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41686,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[239],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41685"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41687,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41685\/revisions\/41687"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}