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. 2023 Jun 5;18(8):1006–1018. doi: 10.2215/CJN.0000000000000192

Table 1.

Descriptive characteristics of hospitalized coronavirus disease 2019–positive patients with and without AKI: demographics, comorbid status, body mass index, disease severity, and mortality

Variables Total (N=336,473) AKI [Code-Based or Serum Creatinine–Based] (N=129,176) Not AKI (N=207,297)
Demographics
Age, mean (SD) 61 (19) 65 (17) 59 (20)
Sex (N, %)
 Female 164,234 (49) 56,577 (44) 107,657 (52)
 Male 172,192 (51) 72,581 (56) 99,611 (48)
Race (N, %)
 Asian 7618 (2) 3094 (2) 4524 (2)
 Black 63,761 (19) 28,636 (22) 35,125 (17)
 White 212,779 (63) 77,764 (60) 135,015 (65)
 Others 7654 (2) 2799 (2) 4855 (2)
 No information 44,661 (13) 16,883 (13) 27,778 (13)
Ethnicity (N, %)
 Not Hispanic or Latino 263,766 (78) 101,930 (79) 161,836 (78)
 Hispanic or Latino 44,934 (13) 15,953 (12) 28,981 (14)
 No information 27,773 (8) 11,293 (9) 16,480 (8)
Comorbid conditions (N, %)
 History available 261,296 (78) 94,992 (74) 166,304 (80)
 Among those with histories available
    Cardiovascular disease 101,926 (39) 44,260 (47) 57,666 (35)
    Diabetes mellitus 77,358 (30) 35,462 (37) 41,896 (25)
    Heart failure 40,993 (16) 20,436 (22) 20,557 (12)
    Hypertension 132,690 (51) 56,801 (60) 75,889 (46)
BMI, kg/m2, mean (SD) 30.9 (8.6) 30.6 (8.7) 31.0 (8.6)
Severity of illness (N, %)
 Sepsis 59,490 (18) 39,725 (31) 19,765 (10)
 Invasive mechanical ventilation 32,932 (10) 28,752 (22) 4180 (2)
 Length of hospital stay, d, mean (IQRs) 9.3 (8) 14.4 (12) 6.1 (4)
Medications (N, %)
 Vasopressors 43,124 (13) 30,697 (24) 12,427 (6)
Periods (N, %)
 P1 48,947 (15) 23,097 (18) 25,850 (12)
 P2 32,513 (10) 12,102 (9) 20,411 (10)
 P3 107,744 (32) 40,583 (31) 67,161 (32)
 P4 41,236 (12) 14,430 (11) 26,806 (13)
 P5 41,845 (12) 15,103 (12) 26,742 (13)
 P6 64,188 (19) 23,861 (18) 40,327 (19)
Death (N, %) 48,230 (14) 34,329 (27) 13,901 (7)

N, number of patients; BMI, body mass index; IQR, interquartile range; P1–6, time periods 1–6.