Elahe Aleebrahim-Dehkordi
1 
, Elaheh Mazaheri
2 , Bijan Roshan
3 , Bhaskar VKS Lakkakula
4 , Ali Hasanpour-Dehkordi
5*, Maryam Khosravian
6 , Aiyoub Pezeshgi
7* 1 Medical Plants Research Center, Basic Health Sciences Institute, Shahrekord University of Medical Sciences, Shahrekord, Iran
2 Health Information Technology Research Center, Student Research Committee, Department of Medical Library and Information Sciences, School of Management and Medical Information Sciences, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran
3 Division of Nephrology, Scripps Clinic, La Jolla, California, USA
4 Department of Zoology, Guru Ghasidas Vishwavidyalaya, Bilaspur, India
5 Social Determinants of Health Research Center, School of Allied Medical Sciences, Shahrekord University of Medical Sciences, Shahrekord, Iran
6 Institute of Biology, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany
7 Department of Nephrology and Zanjan Metabolic Disease Research Center, School of Medicine, Zanjan University of Medical Sciences, Zanjan, Iran
Abstract
Increasing awareness regarding CKD and self-care during COVID-19 pandemic has become the most important aspect for the nephrologists. Hence it is appropriate that the theme of the forthcoming World Kidney Day on 11 March 2021 should be “Strive for kidney health for everyone during COVID-19”
Implication for health policy/practice/research/medical education:
Proteinuria, hematuria, and acute kidney injury are some of the clinical manifestations of renal failure in COVID-19 patients. Additionally, collapsing glomerulopathy with de novo nephrotic syndrome with acute renal impairment in COVID-19 patients has been described and recently been linked with APOL1 (apolipoprotein L1) in African American patients.
Please cite this paper as: Aleebrahim-Dehkordi E, Mazaheri E, Roshan B, Lakkakula BVKS, Hasanpour-Dehkordi A, Khosravian M, et al. Strive for kidney health for everyone during COVID-19; the possible theme for the world kidney day 2021. J Nephropharmacol. 2021;10(2):e12. DOI: 10.34172/npj.2021.12.