Patients with End-Stage Renal Disease Are Vulnerable to Extreme Heat

Patients with end-stage renal disease are susceptible to being to the hospital during extreme heat events researchers assessed 7, mean 61) utilizing a combination hospital Patients with End-Stage admission mortality patients with ESRD underwent hemodialysis treatment at Kidney Care clinics in or New York City, 2001 2012. exposures comprised calendar specific 95th-percentile temperature thresholds, the researchers analyzed all from July 2017 to 2019 using a time-stratified design with conditional Poisson.

Even a single day of extreme heat is associated with an increased risk for same-day hospital admission and same-day mortality in patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD), new research suggests. Climate change is a well-known risk factor for a variety of conditions, but little attention has been paid to the specific impact of extremely hot temperatures on vulnerable populations like patients with ESRD. "A lot of the work that's been done with respect to heat-related epidemiology is focused on the general population," said end stage congestive heart failure and kidney failure Richard Remigio, a doctoral student at the University of Maryland and first author of an article published online today in JAMA Network Open. "With this work we were able to hone in on an already-established vulnerable population. " Extreme heat events were associated with a 27% increase in the rate of same-day hospital admission (95% confidence interval [CI], 1. 13 - 1. 43) and a 31% increase in the rate of same-day mortality (95% CI, 1. 01 - 1. 70) among patients with ESRD.

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