Chronic kidney disease in elderly patients admitted to a psychiatric hospital

Abstract

Background: non-communicable chronic diseases such as arterial hypertension and diabetes mellitus can progress to chronic renal failure, and this requires the need of filtering methods and kidney transplants as the only ways of solution. This condition becomes worse in senior citizens.Objective: to characterize the elderly patients with kidney disease admitted to the "Clodomira Acosta Ferrales" Provincial Psychiatric Hospital of Las Tunas during 2018.Methods: an observational study was conducted at the hospital and period of time declared in the objective. The sample was made up of 39 patients with a diagnosis of kidney disease. The following variables were assessed: sex, modifiable and non-modifiable risk factors, presence of lower obstructive uropathy and the stage of chronic kidney disease. The value of the renal function was assessed using the Cockcroft-Gault formula. The data were processed using descriptive statistics.Results: chronic kidney disease was more frequent in black-skinned patients, in the male sex, and of advanced years. The most frequent modifiable risk factors were arterial hypertension and smoking. The most frequent stages of chronic kidney disease were stages 2 and 3. A history of low birth weight was present in 69,23 % of the patients and only 10,25 % had lower obstructive uropathy.Conclusions: the senior citizens admitted to the psychiatric hospital were characterized, with the presence of low birth-weight histories standing out.

Keywords

• renal insufficiency, chronic
• creatinine
• aged
• mentally ill persons