Collision of COVID-19 pandemic with cardiovascular risk in chronic kidney disease patients; a heavy "triple peine"

Mohammed Asserraji; Omar Maoujoud; Merouane Belarbi; Nader Zemraoui

doi:10.34172/jnp.2021.01

J Nephropathol. 2021;10(1): e01.
doi: 10.34172/jnp.2021.01

Scopus ID: 85090375252

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Epidemiology and Prevention

Collision of COVID-19 pandemic with cardiovascular risk in chronic kidney disease patients; a heavy “triple peine”

Mohammed Asserraji ^1,2^* , Omar Maoujoud ^1,2 , Merouane Belarbi ^1,2, Nader Zemraoui ^1,2

¹ Division of Nephrology, Dialysis and Hypertension, Avicenne Military Hospital of Marrakech, Morocco
² Faculty of Medicine, Cadi Ayyad University of Marrakech, Morocco

*Corresponding Author: *Corresponding author: Mohammed Asserraji, Email:, Email: asserrajimed@hotmail.com

Keywords: COVID-19, Chronic kidney diseases, Cardiovascular risk

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.