Renal damage is common during a serious case of COVID-19, but vaccination seems to protect people against this potentially lethal side effect, says a recent study.
Patients with covid not vaccinated with renal damage serious enough As if to require dialysis, they have almost three times more likely to die in the hospital, compared to those vaccinated against the coronavirus, according to the findings, which were published in the June edition of the magazine Kidney Medicine.
Unpacted patients who receive dialysis also have more than double probabilities to die after being discharged from a hospital or requiring dialysis after going home, they show the results.
“The COVID-19 vaccine is an important intervention that can reduce the chances of developing complications of infection with COVID-19 in hospitalized patients with acute renal lesions,” said the principal researcher, Dr. Nilofar Nobakht, clinical associate professor of health science medicine in the nephrology division of the Faculty of Medicine David Geffen of the UCLA.
“It is important that people talk to their doctors about the benefits of vaccinating against COVID-19, as it can reduce the chances of needing dialysis, which can seriously affect the quality of life of patients and lead to more complications, including death,” he said in a press release.
Up to 46 percent of people hospitalized by COVID suffer acute renal injury, and some require dialysis while their kidneys recover from the damage related to the infection, the researchers said in the backup notes.
In the new study, the researchers followed some 3,500 hospitalized patients with COVID between March 20 and March 2022.
About 48 percent of completely vaccinated COVID patients suffered kidney damage during infection, compared to 42 percent of non -vaccinated patients.
But almost 16 percent of unvaccinated patients had renal damage so serious that it required dialysis, compared to 11 percent of vaccinated patients.
In general, the uncompered patients who required dialysis were:
2.8 times more likely to die in the hospital.
2.4 times more likely to die after discharge.
2.6 times more likely to remain on dialysis after going home.
After taking into account other factors, not vaccinated patients in general were 5.5 times more likely to die in the hospital and 4.8 times more likely to die during long -term follow -up, they show the results.
“This study also emphasizes the importance of the need for continuous investigation to understand how infections with COVID-19 affect the kidney, and how we should manage and monitor renal complications of infections with COVID-19 to improve patient results,” said Nobakht.