A Study on Demographic, Etiological, Clinical: Profile and Complications in Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease in Government General Hospital, Chennai

CONCLUSION: 1. Chronic glomerulonephritis is the commonest cause of Chronic kidney disease in the study population. 2. More than three fourth of patients presented with stage 5 Chronic kidney disease for the first time. 3. Less than half of the patients received renal replacement treatment. 4. Complications like anemia and hyperphosphatemia increased with progression of stage of Chronic kidney disease. 5. Cardiovascular disease in Chronic kidney disease is more common in the presence of Diabetes mellitus, Hypertension, Hyperphosphatemia. 6. In patients with anemia, cardiovascular disease was more common when hemoglobin levels were less than 7g/dl. 7. Correlation between cardiovascular disease and stage of Chronic kidney disease could not be established in the study