Epidemiological clinical characterization of patients with advanced chronic kidney disease

Abstract

Chronic kidney disease is considered as one of the major epidemics of the XXI century and provides a significant burden of morbidity and mortality in the world; it is important to identify and modify the factors of risk that influence its progression. In order to characterize the advanced chronic kidney disease and the evolution of patients in Progression consultation, it was performed a cross-sectional, observational and descriptive research with quantitative approach in the “Arnaldo Milian Castro” Hospital between September 2011 and September 2014. The study population consisted of all patients with advanced chronic kidney disease who were attended in the consultation, intentionally a sample of 110 patients was selected; they were taken into account criteria of inclusion and exclusion. Most of the patients were in stage IV of the disease and, in general, they suffered for less than six years. The hypertension, the hyperlipidemia and the proteinuria were the main factors of progression; it was associated the cardiovascular morbidity, which increased with age.

Keywords

• renal insufficiency, chronic
• epidemiology