Zijin Chen Charles E. McCulloch Neil R. Powe Michael Heung Rajiv Saran Meda E. Pavkov Nilka Rios Burrows Raymond K. Hsu Chi Yuan Hsu Tanushree Banerjee Delphine Tuot Charles McCulloch Deidra Crews Ray..
Zijin Chen Charles E. McCulloch Neil R. Powe Michael Heung Rajiv Saran Meda E. Pavkov Nilka Rios Burrows Raymond K. Hsu Chi Yuan Hsu Tanushree Banerjee Delphine Tuot Charles McCulloch Deidra Crews Raymond Hsu Vanessa Grubbs Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo Zubin Modi Debbie Gipson Vahakn Shahinian Brenda Gillespie Hal Morgenstern William Herman Jennifer Bragg-Gresham Austin Stack Rajesh Balkrishnan Jerry Yee Diane Steffick
Background: There is considerable state-level variation in the incidence of dialysis-requiring acute kidney injury (AKI-D). However, little is known about reasons for this geographic variation. Method..
Background: There is considerable state-level variation in the incidence of dialysis-requiring acute kidney injury (AKI-D). However, little is known about reasons for this geographic variation. Methods: National cross-sectional state-level ecological study based on State Inpatient Databases (SID) and the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) in 2011. We analyzed 18 states and six chronic health conditions (diabetes mellitus [diabetes], hypertension, chronic kidney disease [CKD], arteriosclerotic heart disease [ASHD], cancer (excluding skin cancer), and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease [COPD]). Associations between each of the chronic health conditions and AKI-D incidence was assessed using Pearson correlation and multiple regression adjusting for mean age, the proportion of males, and the proportion of non-Hispanic whites in each state. Results: The state-level AKI-D incidence ranged from 190 to 1139 per million population. State-level differences in rates of hospitalization with chronic health conditions (mostly