Study finds critically ill influenza patients face double the risk of acute kidney injury compared to COVID-19 patients

Transmission electron micrograph of influenza A virus, late passage. Credit: CDC Researchers at the LKS Faculty of Medicine, the University of Hong Kong (HKUMed) revealed that critically ill patients with influenza A have a significantly higher risk of developing acute kidney injury (AKI) than those with COVID-19. The findings, published in eClinicalMedicine, highlight the important differences in the impact of these two respiratory viruses on kidney health. The study, which analyzed data from a Hong Kong-wide cohort, found that influenza patients had a 49% higher risk of developing AKI than those with COVID-19. The influenza group also had a 43% Read More