In a study of Medicare beneficiaries, researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital found that one year after hospitalization for heart failure, 6 percent of patients had progressed to dialysis. KEY TAKEAWAYS Researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital, a founding member of the Mass General Brigham healthcare system, have found links between heart failure and kidney disease that support new approaches for integrating the care of these conditions. In an analysis that included adults ages 65 and older who were hospitalized for heart failure from across 372 sites in the U.
S., researchers found that patients had a substantial risk of kidney complications, with approximately 6 percent progressing to dialysis within a year of being hospitalized for heart failure. The new results are published in JAMA Cardiology.
We know that heart and kidney health are highly interconnected, but management of heart and kidney disease remains relatively siloed, and kidney health often isn't prioritized in patients with heart disease until advanced stages. Declining kidney function is often asymptomatic until late in the disease course, but even less advanced stages of kidney impairment can have important implications for cardiovascular health. Hence, there's a need for analyses that assess kidney outcomes in people with heart failure.
" John Ostrominski, MD, first author, a fellow in Cardiovascular Medicine and Obesity Medicine at the Brigham About two thirds of older adults with heart failure have.
