Mohammed Asserraji
1,2* , Omar Maoujoud
1,2 , Merouane Belarbi
1,2, Nader Zemraoui
1,21 Division of Nephrology, Dialysis and Hypertension, Avicenne Military Hospital of Marrakech, Morocco
2 Faculty of Medicine, Cadi Ayyad University of Marrakech, Morocco
Implication for health policy/practice/research/medical education:
Patients with chronic kidney diseases exhibit a very high cardiovascular risk. The COVID-19 outbreak has worsened this risk by the addition of a new cardiac pathology and the exacerbation of pre-existing cardiovascular diseases in patients with chronic impairment of kidney function.
Please cite this paper as: Asserraji M, Maoujoud M, Belarbi M, Zemraoui N. Collision of COVID-19 pandemic with cardiovascular risk in chronic kidney disease patients; a heavy “triple peine”. J Nephropathol. 2021;10(1):e01. DOI: 10.34172/jnp.2021.01.