--- title: "Study: COVID Patients Suffering Acute Kidney Damage" description: "According to a new study, a large medical system located in New York, over a third of COVID-19 patients experienced acute kidney injury." date: "2020-05-15" modified: "2020-05-15" authors: - name: "Victor Tangermann" job_title: "Senior Editor" link: "https://futurism.com/authors/victor" url: "https://futurism.com/neoscope/covid-patients-suffering-kidney-damage" categories: - "Developments" - "Health & Medicine" tags: - "coronavirus" - "covid19" - "Kidney" - "kidney disease" --- # Study: COVID Patients Suffering Acute Kidney Damage ![According to a new study, a large medical system located in New York, over a third of COVID-19 patients experienced acute kidney injury.]() *\Image: Sheldahl/Victor Tangermann\* According to a new study conducted at Northwell Health, a large medical system located in New York, over a third of COVID-19 patients experienced acute kidney injury, [*Reuters* reports](). "We found in the first 5,449 patients admitted, 36.6% developed acute kidney injury," Kenar Jhaveri, associated chief of nephrology at Hofstra/Northwell and co-author of [the study]() published in the journal *Kidney International* on Thursday, said in a statement. Doctors have also found links between COVID-19 and a variety of other conditions, including [vitamin deficiency](), [blood clots](), and it's also known to have devastating effects on [the lungs](), [intestines](), and [the heart](). All told, a picture is starting to emerge of a ferocious, unpredictable illness that can attack organ systems across the body. Despite these early findings, though, the deadly virus is still not well enough understood to draw many definite conclusions. Kidney failure is relatively common among seriously ill patients. "It’s not specific to COVID-19," Jhaveri told *Reuters*. "It’s more related to how sick you are." The study, however, could still help health practitioners prepare for future severe cases among COVID-19 patients. Jhaveri also told *Reuters* that 14.3 percent of patients required dialysis, the process of removing excess water and toxins from the blood when the kidney can no longer take care of the process. And 37.3 percent of patients initially arrived at the hospital with failing kidneys, or eventually had their kidneys fail within 24 hours of getting there. There was also a strong association between COVID-19 patients ending up on a ventilator and developing acute kidney failure. Among more than 1,000 patients on ventilators, 90 percent developed the serious condition. ## Author I've been at Futurism since 2017, where my role has evolved to encompass design, writing, and increasingly editing. I've always been fascinated by space exploration and advanced transportation, which I've leaned into by interviewing luminaries in those fields while closely following the dimensions of policy and regulation that allow next-generation projects to succeed -- or, sometimes, to fail. I'm also keenly interested in the effects of generative AI on society, policies, and democratic institutions, as well as clean energy, physics and biology, and the vagaries of tech leadership. My work for Futurism has been cited by publications including Ars Technica, Gizmodo, PC Magazine, Jalopnik, Fox News, and the New York Post. I spent my childhood living in locations including Manila, the Philippines, and Geneva, Switzerland, attended McGill University, and now live in Toronto, Canada. Before Futurism I worked at AskMen and a small photography studio. In my free time, I'm an avid gardener, foodie, and craft beer lover, as well as a maker of artisanal hot pepper sauces. I have a magnificent dog named Freida. ### Author social links [Bluesky]()