Risk Variants and Acute Kidney Injury in Black Americans with COVID-19.

Background And Objectives: Black Americans have a higher incidence of kidney disease compared with populations that do not have recent African ancestry. Two risk variants in the are responsible for a portion of this higher risk. We sought to assess the odds of AKI conferred by risk alleles in patients with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection.