A STUDY ON VARIOUS RISK FACTORS AMONG CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE PATIENTS ADMITTED IN THE NEPHROLOGY DEPARTMENT OF GGH, KURNOOL FROM JUNE TO NOVEMBER, 2012
Journal Title: Journal of Evidence Based Medicine and Healthcare - Year 2015, Vol 2, Issue 15
Abstract
INTRODUCTION: Chronic kidney disease is emerging as an important public health problem given its magnitude as well as the costs involved as it can be recognised only in the later stages of the disease. Hence it is necessary to identify the disease in its early stages so that interventions can be done to halt or slow down the progress of the disease. Thus identification of the high risk groups and screening for chronic kidney disease becomes one of the initial steps towards reducing the burden of the disease. OBJECTIVES: 1.To study the sociodemographic profile of the chronic kidney disease patients 2. To study the prevalence of known risk factors among chronic kidney disease patients attending to Nephrology department. 3. To study the factors influencing the occurrence of various risk factors. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A Cross sectional descriptive study of the Chronic Kidney Disease patients, admitted in the Nephrology Department of GGH, Kurnool was conducted from June to November, 2012. Thus 153 CKD patients were interviewed for their socio-demographic details like age, gender, education level and Socio-economic status, and for history of various known risk factors like Hypertension, Diabetes, use of analgesics, and family history of CKD etc with a Pre-designed semi structured questionnaire. Statistical analysis was done in Epi info version 7 using percentages and chi- square. RESULTS: Total study subjects were 153 in number. Hypertension was present among 82.35% of the study subjects, diabetes among 32%, and renal stones in 3.9%. Slightly less than half of the participants (46.41%) reported chronic use of non-steroidal analgesic drugs. Family history of CKD was reported in 18.9% of the participants. CONCLUSION: Hypertension was the major risk factor followed by chronic use of NSAIDs. Diabetes was found in one-third of the patients. A few had history of renal stones.
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Siva Kala T, Padma Sri Y, Sree Devi A, Jikki N
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