Abstract
The profile of patients undergoing haemodialysis in the dialysis unit of Hospital Santa Casa de Maringa, Maringa PR Brazil, is provided. A questionnaire on social and economic data and underlying diseases prior to the Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) identified the patients' profile. The project was approved by the Ethics Committee of the institution. Eighty-three patients, with 54.21% males, were interviewed. Age bracket ranged between 20 and 59 years in 65.06% of patients. Only 27.71% maintained jobs after the diagnosis and the start of treatment; 63.86% had an average personal income between 1 and 3 minimum wages; 63.85% did not practice any physical activity. Moreover, 53.01% belonged to the European-Brazilian white group; 20.48% to the Afro-Brazilian brown group; 19.28% to the Afro-Brazilian Negro group; 6.02% to other ethnic groups. Further, 85.54% patients reported having an underlying disease prior to the CKD, namely, 61.45% were hypertensive; 31.33% were diabetics and 20.48% had other diseases. Results show the need of a greater attention to these patients' health care to reduce the negative impacts related to the chronic disease focused.
Highlights
Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) consists of a renal injury with a subsequent progressive and irreversible loss of kidney function
CKD prevalence among males observed in current study is corroborated by the 2011 census by the Brazilian Nephrology Society (SBN, 2011) and by Bregman’s investigation (BREGMAN, 2006)
Results indicate that CKD was more frequent among males, affecting individuals between 20 and 59 years of age, and constituted a social problem, since it affected them when they were economically active
Summary
Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) consists of a renal injury with a subsequent progressive and irreversible loss of kidney function. Since it is a silent disease, CKD signs and symptoms appear only at later stages and its consequences are unknown by most carriers (ROMÃO JUNIOR, 2004). The kidneys fail to keep the organism’s internal homeostasis and the patient requires either dialysis or kidney transplant (RIELLA, 1996; LIMA; GUALDA, 2000). CKD is currently an important public health problem, with approximately 50,128 patients affected by the disease in 2011 (SBN, 2011). Public expenditure on dialysis and kidney transplant program in Brazil is close to 1.4 billion real a year (ROMÃO JUNIOR, 2004)
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