Volume 26, Issue 126, August 2022

A retrospective investigation on risk factors of chronic kidney disease in Al-Qunfudah populations, Saudi Arabia

Hisham H Al-Zehry¹, Medhat Taha^2,3♦, Athba M Al kinani⁴, Hind A Al shankiti⁴, Wafa O Bahshwan⁴, Hanan A Bamosa⁴

¹Department of Clinical Pathology, Al-Qunfudah Medical College, Umm Al-Qura University, Mecca, Saudi Arabia
²Department of Anatomy and Embryology, Faculty of Medicine, Mansoura University, Egypt
³Department of Anatomy, Al- Qunfudah Medical College, Umm Al Qura University, Al-Qunfudhah, Saudi Arabia
⁴Al- Qunfudah Medical College, Umm Al Qura University, AlQunfudhah, Saudi Arabia

^♦Corresponding author
Department of Anatomy and Embryology, Faculty of Medicine, Mansoura University, Egypt

ABSTRACT

Background: Chronic renal impairment is a major health problem in Saudi Arabia the risk of this health problem as diagnosed in advanced stages, especially during the screening examination. Objective: The aim of our work is to clarify the major CKD risk factors among patients attending the nephrology clinic at Qunfudah general hospital. Method: Data were collected from the patients’ files using a data collection form in addition to using medical records during the period from 2020 to 2021. Result: According to our work we found that 80% of chronic renal impairment patients are hypertensive while 40% of them are diabetic, on the other hand, 29% of them obese, and 3% of them are smokers, receiving NSAIDs. Discussion: The risk factors were found to be leading and were similar to other research done in countries such as the United States, Japan, and Kuwait. Conclusion: These results may be used as a database which may result in the establishment of solid primary preventive programs.

Keywords: Chronic kidney disease, Hypertension, Diabetes, Obesity, Smoking

Medical Science, 2022, 26, ms349e2437

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.54905/disssi/v26i126/ms349e2437

Published: 27 August 2022