Covid vaccination protects against severe kidney damage, study suggests
Complications from a Covid infection may damage the heart, brain, lungs and kidneys. A new study found that patients who were hospitalized for COVID are less likely to be exposed to severe kidney damage if vaccinated.
Researchers at UCLA Health analyzed electronic medical records in a large academic hospital between March 1, 2020 and 30 March 2022, in the patient who was invested in approximately 3,500 hospitals, and at least two primary doz modera or Pfizer MRNA vaccine or a dose of Johnson & Johnson Jansen, Johnson & Johnson Jansen, at least two premiums for the hospital. He compared patients who were hospitalized.
The researchers examined that participants developed a kind of dialysis or continuous renal replacement treatment known as CRRT. Uninterrupted dialysis treatment makes the work of the kidneys by filtering and removing waste from blood. Typically, a patient is used in intensive care unit, the chief writer said Dr. Niloofar NobakhtHealth Sciences Clinical Associate Professor UCLA Professor of Medicine in Nefrology.
The study found that 16% of non -vaccinated patients with COVID were more likely to need CRTT compared to 11% of patients vaccinated during their admission. The probability of needing CRRT after leaving the hospital was more than two and a half times-and the risk of dying after being discharged was much higher compared to patients vaccinated.
In 2021, Yale University Faculty of Medicine researchers are among the patients in the hospital with COVID, Approximately 30% improves acute kidney damage – Sudden, usually recycled kidney dysfunction. Patients hospitalized with COVID are likely to have twice dialysis than patients who were hospitalized for other reasons.
There is a great limitation in the new study. Researchers did not have full data about the starting kidney condition for patients – that is, it is not known how well the kidneys worked well before infection – therefore, Dr. Infection Prevention Medical Director Dr. Scott Roberts, Ph.D. Scott Roberts, Ph.D. Scott Roberts.
How can Covid damage the kidneys?
Covid said he could injure the kidneys directly or by damaging other organs such as the heart and lungs. The more severe the symptoms, the greater the risk.
“On the contrary, mild or asymptomatic infections are rarely causing significant kidney damages, Y Yong Chen said, Professor of Health AI Center at the University of Pennsylvania, who is not associated with the new study. Chen is investigating Covid complications, including kidney problems in children and adolescents.
Experts say that the risk of kidney complications after avoidance is especially high in older people or in the case of suppressed, but probably depends on the seriousness of the first infection rather than the virus itself.
“For example, it seems that the comparison of COVID with people who were hospitalized with flu, both has the risk of high kidney injury and is watching how sick they were during hospitalization,” he said. “Among the people of Covid, I hope that everything is equal, less severe illness of the vaccinated group, and therefore less kidney problems.”
Why can vaccination protect the kidneys?
“Vaccination kidneys maintain serious Covid forms that cause kidney injury to prevent serious Covid forms, Chen Chen said. “Vaccines directly protect the kidney cells, otherwise they dull the systemic disease that leads to very organ failure.”
However, both Covid infection and vaccines can be risky for people with glomerulonephritis, which is a kind of kidney disease that filtering units known as glomeruli are damaged
Clinical Nephrologists and Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics at Pennsylvania University Hospital. Jeffrey S. Berns said that adults and children with glomerulonephritis, who had a recurrence of the situation for the first time following Covid infection and also vaccination, are reports of glomerulonephritis. Berns was not part of the study.
Risks for children
The study was only applied to people aged 18 years and older, but experts say that children with Covid may receive acute kidney damage and some may be permanent kidney damage.
“One Working by our teamThe results also showed that previously children with COVIDs had a risk of chronic kidney disease with 35% higher than 35% higher for six months. ”
In late May, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Disease Control and Prevention Centers will no longer recommend routine Covid shots for healthy children and pregnant women. Doctors say that reviewed guidelines are too early to know that unscathed children will contribute to the increase in the risk of kidney damage and contribute.
Even if a new variant of Covid virus has gained momentum in the United States, there is less acute kidney damage than the first years of the disease -related pandem.
Berns said, “More people have been vaccinated, and as the immunity experienced immune from previous infection, the severity of the disease was not so bad and the flux became much less widespread,” he said.
