The Association of Preoperative Statin Use and Acute Kidney Injury After Noncardiac Surgery
Author(s) -
Maged Argalious,
Jarrod E. Dalton,
Thilak Sreenivasalu,
Jerome F. O’Hara,
Daniel I. Sessler
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
anesthesia and analgesia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.404
H-Index - 201
eISSN - 1526-7598
pISSN - 0003-2999
DOI - 10.1213/ane.0b013e31828175ab
Subject(s) - medicine , propensity score matching , acute kidney injury , dialysis , odds ratio , incidence (geometry) , rifle , logistic regression , statin , confounding , retrospective cohort study , confidence interval , medical record , surgery , emergency medicine , physics , archaeology , optics , history
Our objective was to examine the association between preoperative statin therapy and the incidence of postoperative acute kidney injury (AKI) in patients undergoing elective noncardiac surgery.
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