Narayan Prasad, Akhilesh Jaiswal, Jeyakumar Meyyappan, Natrajan Gopalakrishnan, Arpita Roy Chaudhary, Edwin Fernando, Manish Rathi, Shivendra Singh, Mohan Rajapurkar, Tarun Jeloka, Jai Kishun, Valentine Lobo
BACKGROUND: Acute kidney injury (AKI), particularly community-acquired AKI (CA-AKI), is a major health concern globally. The International Society of Nephrology's "0 by 25" initiative to reduce preventable deaths from AKI to zero by 2025 is not achievable in low and middle income countries, such as India, possibly due to a lack of data and measures to tackle this urgent public health issue. In India, CA-AKI predisposes younger patients to hospitalization, morbidity, and mortality. This is the first multicenter, prospective, cohort study investigating CA-AKI and its consequences in India...
February 2024: Lancet Reg Health Southeast Asia