Changes in renal failure mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States

J Nephrol. 2021 Dec;34(6):2167-2170. doi: 10.1007/s40620-021-01145-4. Epub 2021 Aug 21.

Lefei Han^#¹, Shi Zhao^#^{2

3}, Wangnan Cao^#^{4

5}, Mohammad Javanbakht⁶, Jinjun Ran⁷, Shenzhi Sun⁸

¹ School of Global Health, Chinese Center for Tropical Diseases Research, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China.
² JC School of Public Health and Primary Care, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.
³ CUHK Shenzhen Research Institute, Shenzhen, China.
⁴ Center for Evidence Synthesis in Health, Brown University School of Public Health, Providence, RI, USA.
⁵ Department of Social Medicine and Health Education, School of Public Health, Peking University, Beijing, China.
⁶ Nephrology and Urology Research Center, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
⁷ Department of Environmental Health, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA. jinjunr@sjtu.edu.cn.
⁸ School of Public Health, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China. szsun@bu.edu.

^# Contributed equally.

Abstract

Supplementary Information: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s40620-021-01145-4.