Is acute kidney injury associated with higher mortality and healthcare utilization in patients hospitalized for acute heart failure?
Acute kidney injury during heart failure hospitalizations identifies a high-risk population with increased mortality and healthcare resource use.
AKI is common among acute heart failure hospitalizations and is associated with higher mortality, greater use of critical care interventions, and increased healthcare utilization. These findings reinforce prior evidence that AKI identifies a high-risk population. Given the observational design, results should be interpreted as associations rather than causal effects. Further studies using laboratory-based definitions and longitudinal outcomes are needed to better characterize the long-term implications of AKI.
Tai et al. (Thu,) studied this question.