Seasonality of acute kidney injury incidence in Japanese outpatients
Yuka Sakazaki, Yuki Kondo, Mizuki Okuma, Ayaka Seki, Takamasa Sakai, Tetsumi Irie, Yoichi Ishitsuka · 2026
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Description
Yuka Sakazaki and co-authors find, in 2026, a summer peak in sudden kidney injury among Japanese outpatients. Community-acquired acute kidney injury is common but its calendar rhythm was unclear, so the team analysed a national insurance claims database covering August 2016 to July 2018 and more than 4.28 million outpatients.
They counted 20,634 new community cases. Incidence climbed from June and peaked in July, when the adjusted rate ran 19 percent above the reference pattern, and July beat February in every subgroup examined. The seasonal swing interacted with age, hitting hardest in the youngest group, under twenty. Heat and other seasonal environmental factors are the natural suspects, and the authors suggest prevention efforts in outpatient care should respect the calendar.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Yuka Sakazaki, Yuki Kondo, Mizuki Okuma, Ayaka Seki, Takamasa Sakai, Tetsumi Irie, Yoichi Ishitsuka |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 29 KB |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |