Scientists warn of the threat of kidney aging for decades due to COVID

In those who have had covid-19, there is a decrease in kidney function, there is a risk of developing kidney failure, American scientists have found. This is equivalent to about 30 years of organ aging.

The transferred CORONAVIRUS can affect the kidneys and these consequences can last a lifetime, causing serious damage to the functioning of this organ, reports The New York Times, citing a study by a group of American scientists from St. Louis.

The study involved 89.2 thousand people who were diagnosed with COVID-19 from March 1, 2020 to March 15, 2021. Scientists also used data from 1.6 million people who did not have COVID-19.

As a result, in the period from one to six months after infection, people with COVID-19 were more susceptible to a decrease in kidney function (by 35%) than those who were not found to have coronavirus. “People who survive the first 30 days of covid are at risk of developing kidney failure,” Ziyad Al Ali, a nephrologist and assistant professor at the University of Washington School of Medicine, who is one of the authors of the study, was quoted by the newspaper as saying.

He also noted that the 4,700 participants in the study who had COVID-19 experienced a 30% decrease in kidney function within a year. This is equivalent to about 30 years of “aging” of the body, said Perry Wilson, an assistant professor of medicine at Yale, who did not take part in the study.

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