Abstract
31Aug 2016 CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE IN CHILDREN IN ARAR, KINGDOM OF SAUDI ARABIA Zeinab Mohmad Ibrahim Ory , Nagah Mohamed Aboel-Fetoh , Nesreen A. Mohammed , Asma Hamoud Alruwaili , Amjad Hamoud Alruwaili and Aishah Mohammed Alenezi. Assistant professor of pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Northern border University, Arar, KSA. Associate Professor, of Public Health and Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine,Sohag University, Sohag, Egypt. AndFaculty of Medicine, Northern border University, Arar, KSA. Lecturer of Public Health and Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Sohag University, Sohag, Egypt. Intern, Faculty of Medicine, Northern border University, Arar, KSA.
Highlights
The global burden of kidney diseases is rising, and several causes first begin early in childhood [1]
One hundred children were included in this study, 60 children were male, 19 children were in the age group < 1 year, 27% were between 2 and 5-year-old and 21 children were in the age group 6-9 year
Results of the current study revealed that 71.4% of children with chronic kidney disease (CKD) didn't have associated chronic disease which is lower than the findings of the study conducted by Kiliś-Pstrusińska K., et al [18] where 87.7 % of the studied children with CKD had no comorbidities
Summary
The global burden of kidney diseases is rising, and several causes first begin early in childhood [1]. The number of deaths attributable to chronic kidney disease (CKD) has almost doubled globally in the past 20 years. CKD is among the top 20 causes of death worldwide [2]. Little is known about the epidemiological features of CKD in the younger population [3]. CKD is defined as evidence for bilateral kidney damage for more than 3 months, which can be structural or functional, with or without a decrease in glomerular filtration rate [4]. The presence of CKD at any stage is a strong predictor for deterioration of renal function later in lifetime [5]
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