COVID survivors have 2x increased risk for kidney Disease

[goatmane]

Researchers find kidney disease is twice as likely to develop in COVID-19 survivors



https://www.wmar2news.com/news/nati...ce-as-likely-to-develop-in-covid-19-survivors

By: Scripps National
Posted at 12:53 PM, Sep 03, 2021

and last updated 12:53 PM, Sep 03, 2021
Researchers have identified a new long-haul COVID-19 symptom that's silent yet deadly.


Kidney disease is twice as likely to develop in COVID-19 survivors, according to the findings published in the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology.

A team of researchers tracked nearly 90,000 people treated for COVID-19 at VA hospitals and compared this data with nearly 2 million people who have never been infected with COVID-19.


Survivors were more likely to have an acute kidney injury, a decline in kidney function, and end-stage kidney disease, which is irreversible.



Those can also lead to other issues.
“It has downstream ramifications. It's, you know, when people have kidney disease, they subsequently develop higher risk of having heart attacks, strokes and also different ailments and certainly have a higher risk of early death,” said Dr. Ziyad Al-Aly, Chief of Research and Development at the VA St. Louis Health Care System.


The lead researcher says even people who recover from COVID-19 at home can run into this.

The worst part is kidney disease is silent and painless, and by the time some people get a diagnosis, 80 to 90% of their kidney function could already be gone.

Dr. Al-Aly recommends everyone who was infected with COVID-19 get their kidneys screened to avoid this costly and life-threatening long-haul symptom.

“The blood work to detect kidney disease is really the simplest blood work that is, that it can actually detect, you know, or can estimate, you know, creatinine which would, which would give you a measure of the kidney function. And that's very, very cheap. It’s available everywhere. And dealing with the end-stage kidney disease, that cost at least $70,000 to $80,000 per year and that's even if patients actually lucky enough to really survive,” said Dr. Al-Aly.

The doctor plans to keep studying long-haul COVID-19 symptoms. He’s calling for our health care systems to prepare now for COVID-19 survivors that could end up hospitalized down the road with things like kidney disease

 

[Neo. The Only. The One.]

Man, this is some frightening stuff.

 

[Theodoresolderbreh]

Man fukk

 

[bnew]

“The blood work to detect kidney disease is really the simplest blood work that is, that it can actually detect, you know, or can estimate, you know, creatinine which would, which would give you a measure of the kidney function. And that's very, very cheap. It’s available everywhere. And dealing with the end-stage kidney disease, that cost at least $70,000 to $80,000 per year and that's even if patients actually lucky enough to really survive,” said Dr. Al-Aly.

 

[Double Burger With Cheese]

Not to completely dismiss this study but the methodology hella flawed and it needs to be taken with a grain of salt.

So I clicked the link to the study. And this the first sentence in the methodology section: “We built a cohort of 1,726,683 US Veterans”

I stopped reading right there lol. If you know anything about alcohol, you know it puts you at an increased risk for kidney disease. If you know anything about the military, you know all branches have a huge drinking culture. They drink heavy. So they only used samples from veterans...people who are prone to have high alcohol consumption which leads to kidney issues. So this shyt hella flawed

 

[boriquaking]

Not to completely dismiss this study but the methodology hella flawed and it needs to be taken with a grain of salt.

So I clicked the link to the study. And this the first sentence in the methodology section: “We built a cohort of 1,726,683 US Veterans”

I stopped reading right there lol. If you know anything about alcohol, you know it puts you at an increased risk for kidney disease. If you know anything about the military, you know all branches have a huge drinking culture. They drink heavy. So they only used samples from veterans...people who are prone to have high alcohol consumption which leads to kidney issues. So this shyt hella flawed

They didn’t choose the veterans blindly.

 

[Double Burger With Cheese]

They didn’t choose the veterans blindly.

But my point is, I’m sure veterans drink at a higher rate than civilians do. And they didn’t seem to address that particular point when choosing participants. So I’m just saying, a study that’s based around probability of kidney issues using a target group that has a high rate of drinking is flawed.

 

[boriquaking]

But my point is, I’m sure veterans drink at a higher rate than civilians do. And they didn’t seem to address that particular point when choosing participants. So I’m just saying, a study that’s based around probability of kidney issues using a target group that has a high rate of drinking is flawed.

I understand, thats a culture thing in the military for sure. But there are probably still a few people who don’t drink in some branch of of the military who they could use. Can’t imagine they’d be many.

 

[Cuban Pete]

Not to completely dismiss this study but the methodology hella flawed and it needs to be taken with a grain of salt.

So I clicked the link to the study. And this the first sentence in the methodology section: “We built a cohort of 1,726,683 US Veterans”

I stopped reading right there lol. If you know anything about alcohol, you know it puts you at an increased risk for kidney disease. If you know anything about the military, you know all branches have a huge drinking culture. They drink heavy. So they only used samples from veterans...people who are prone to have high alcohol consumption which leads to kidney issues. So this shyt hella flawed

Let the brehs on here fearmonger a little while us serious covid survivors might as well commit that if some people had their way here

 

[Double Burger With Cheese]

Let the brehs on here fearmonger a little while us serious covid survivors might as well commit that if some people had their way here

Man I’m neutral on this covid/vaccine shyt. I’m just big on accurate info. I’m not saying OP got bad intentions with this thread cause you have to click on the study and read further to come to the conclusion I did. But I hate how, not just covid, but any misleading information is put out there because I know most people just read headlines. So a lot of my post in covid related threads just be to clarify information from an article or headline that may be misleading.

 

[Wildhundreds]

Man I’m neutral on this covid/vaccine shyt. I’m just big on accurate info. I’m not saying OP got bad intentions with this thread cause you have to click on the study and read further to come to the conclusion I did. But I hate how, not just covid, but any misleading information is put out there because I know most people just read headlines. So a lot of my post in covid related threads just be to clarify information from an article or headline that may be misleading.

And if you take a deeper dive you'd see that the veterans are mistreated at VA hospitals nationwide.. So couple the VA mistreatment and substance abuse together with covid, can't be a good outlook..

 

[Cuban Pete]

Man I’m neutral on this covid/vaccine shyt. I’m just big on accurate info. I’m not saying OP got bad intentions with this thread cause you have to click on the study and read further to come to the conclusion I did. But I hate how, not just covid, but any misleading information is put out there because I know most people just read headlines. So a lot of my post in covid related threads just be to clarify information from an article or headline that may be misleading.

I bet you've been negged for that shyt too, I'm not a vaccine dikkrider but I believe in science as much as possible. At the same time, like you said, you've gotta read scientific reports all the way through and take into account all the information. The shyt you said was on point, who in the military doesn't drink heavily? Probably about 15 or 20 percent only if that, all my military vet friends would make frat boys blush.

 

[Double Burger With Cheese]

I bet you've been negged for that shyt too, I'm not a vaccine dikkrider but I believe in science as much as possible. At the same time, like you said, you've gotta read scientific reports all the way through and take into account all the information. The shyt you said was on point, who in the military doesn't drink heavily? Probably about 15 or 20 percent only if that, all my military vet friends would make frat boys blush.

Yeah the vaccine like politics and religion, it ain’t much room for nuanced discussion with some people cause sides been chosen and the issue been politicized. I used to get annoyed when people would call me anti vax or Trump supporter when I would post in vaccine threads. I’d be like

But I had to realize this biggest issue in the country and a lot of people just swept up in the hysteria and just super passionate for either side. Most people are not doing any reading beyond headlines and looking at the news though, and whatever you believe about the vaccine, most people just looking at news and information with confirmation bias and not being objective.

 

[philmonroe]

I bet you've been negged for that shyt too, I'm not a vaccine dikkrider but I believe in science as much as possible. At the same time, like you said, you've gotta read scientific reports all the way through and take into account all the information. The shyt you said was on point, who in the military doesn't drink heavily? Probably about 15 or 20 percent only if that, all my military vet friends would make frat boys blush.

I'm not going to lie you dudes online sound like straight bots saying that "believe/trust the science" trademark bullshyt. For the black people esp I honestly think y'all been around too much white media trying to fit in no offense. That wasn't a thing before last year now everybody all of sudden trust it lol. Nothing personal against you just how all of you cats not just you sound to me saying that phrase.

 

[Cuban Pete]

I'm not going to lie you dudes online sound like straight bots saying that "believe/trust the science" trademark bullshyt. For the black people esp I honestly think y'all been around too much white media trying to fit in no offense. That wasn't a thing before last year now everybody all of sudden trust it lol. Nothing personal against you just how all of you cats not just you sound to me saying that phrase.

That's why I said "as much as possible" my boy. If something doesn't add up I'm not afraid to call it out. But we've had flu vaccines for years and the flu is a coronavirus, I don't see that big of a jump tbh. Now on that same note, I'm not taking no AIDS or Cancer vaccine just yet because that's NEW GROUND that were walking into. You see how that works? And me personally, Ive always been into science and medicine as much as I can be for a non medical professional becaus I like learning. If you don't wanna take it idgaf that's on you, just don't cough in my direction lol but the vaccine thumpers are starting to sound like fukking Jehovah's witnesses and I hate that, and I definitely see how some people are making the legal argument that mandated vaccines is a form of government overreach. In my home country you HAVE to be vaccinated no ifs nothing you don't take it you go straight to jail. So I can see how some folks are not fukking with the mandates