Severe Pregnancy-Associated Acute Kidney Injury and Maternal Vulnerability
Electronic records covering 4,094,111 US pregnancies showed severe pregnancy-associated acute kidney injury rising from 9.0 to 27.6 per 10,000 pregnancies between 2012-2013 and the COVID-19 era. Pre-existing cardiometabolic vulnerability was associated with risk, but observational data cannot separate infection, access, testing, and secular trends.