Table 2 Incidence of in-hospital acute kidney injury based on admission serum ionized calcium levels.

From: Impact of admission serum ionized calcium levels on risk of acute kidney injury in hospitalized patients

Outcome

All

Serum ionized calcium level at hospital admission (mg/dL)

 ≤ 4.39

4.40–4.59

4.60–4.79

4.80–4.99

5.00–5.19

 ≥ 5.20

P

AKI

3,294 (12.7)

332 (16.5)

531 (14.8)

1,004 (12.5)

867 (11.6)

341 (10.4)

219 (15.0)

 < 0.001

AKI stage

Stage 1

Stage 2

Stage 3

2,672 (10.3)

340 (1.3)

282 (1.1)

227 (11.3)

50 (2.5)

55 (2.7)

423 (11.8)

57 (1.6)

51 (1.4)

819 (10.2)

109 (1.4)

76 (0.9)

726 (9.7)

76 (1.0)

65 (0.9)

301 (9.2)

22 (0.7)

18 (0.6)

176 (12.0)

26 (1.8)

17 (1.1)

 < 0.001

Renal replacement therapy

167 (0.6)

36 (1.8)

26 (0.8)

49 (0.6)

35 (0.5)

11 (0.3)

10 (0.7)

 < 0.001