COVID-19 vaccination protects adults on dialysis against infection and severe disease
Washington, DC - Multiple studies have shown that individuals with kidney failure who are undergoing dialysis mount weaker antibody responses after COVID-19 vaccination than people in the general population, but new research indicates that these individuals' immune responses are still capable of protecting against SARS-CoV-2 infection and severe COVID-19. The findings are published in JASN.
For the study, Matthew Oliver, MD, MHS (Sunnybrook Health Science Centre, University of Toronto, Ontario Health) and his colleagues analyzed health records for 13,759 individuals receiving maintenance dialysis between December 21, 2020 and June 30, 2021—17% of whom were unvaccinated and 83% of whom had received at least 1 mRNA COVID-19 vaccine dose.
The study was conducted in the entire maintenance dialysis population of Ontario, Canada's most populous province. The population was multicultural and included patients receiving both home dialysis and in-center hemodialysis.
"Patients on maintenance dialysis often have suppressed immune systems and many are unable to isolate because they must attend dialysis treatments 3 times per week in a dialysis center. Reducing hospitalizations and deaths is very important in this population because approximately two-thirds of these patients were hospitalized and 1 in 4 died when infected by SARS-CoV-2 early in the pandemic," said Dr. Oliver.
https://jasn.asnjournals.org/content/early/2022/03/09/ASN.2021091262
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