{"id":9193,"date":"2025-04-09T13:22:11","date_gmt":"2025-04-09T18:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=9193"},"modified":"2025-04-09T13:22:13","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T18:22:13","slug":"a-call-for-closer-kidney-monitoring-after-covid-19-hospitalization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/04\/09\/a-call-for-closer-kidney-monitoring-after-covid-19-hospitalization\/","title":{"rendered":"A Call for Closer Kidney Monitoring After COVID-19 Hospitalization"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.physiciansweekly.com\/a-call-for-closer-kidney-monitoring-after-covid-19-hospitalization\/\">Physicians Weekly<\/a> Patients experienced a greater annual decline in kidney function after COVID-19 infection compared with after pneumonia due to other infections, according to a study published in&nbsp;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jamanetworkopen\/fullarticle\/2828493\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"JAMA Network Open, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">JAMA Network Open<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Researchers found that the magnitude of accelerated kidney function decline was steepest in patients hospitalized for COVID-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe, therefore, propose that people who were hospitalized for COVID-19 receive closer monitoring of kidney function to ensure prompt diagnosis and optimized management of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.physiciansweekly.com\/category\/nephrology\/ckd-nephrology\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"chronic kidney disease, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">chronic kidney disease<\/a>&nbsp;to effectively prevent complications and further decline,\u201d wrote corresponding author&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-3157-1127\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Viyaasan Mahalingasivam, MPhil, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Viyaasan Mahalingasivam, MPhil<\/a>, and colleagues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Investigators assessed links between COVID-19 infection and long-term kidney function in light of known associations between COVID-19 and acute kidney injury. Nearly a third of COVID-19 hospitalizations, the researchers noted, have involved acute kidney injury.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.physiciansweekly.com\/a-call-for-closer-kidney-monitoring-after-covid-19-hospitalization\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Physicians Weekly Patients experienced a greater annual decline in kidney function after COVID-19 infection compared with after pneumonia due to other infections, according to a study published in&nbsp;JAMA Network Open. Researchers found that the magnitude of accelerated kidney function decline was steepest in patients hospitalized for COVID-19. \u201cWe, therefore, propose that people who were hospitalized [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9193"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9194,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9193\/revisions\/9194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}