Clinico demographic profile of chronic kidney disease patients and its manifestations on oral cavity and throat at a tertiary care centre in central India-original study

Abstract

With the aging of the population chronic kidney disease (CKD) has become one of the most common noncommunicable disease in the world as well as a leading cause of mortality. The present study was designed to describe the clinicodemographic profile of CKD patients and its manifestations on oral cavity and throat in central India, Madhya Pradesh (M.P.). This was a cross sectional, analytic study conducted in the Department of Medicine, Sanjay Gandhi Memorial Hospital (SHMH), associated with Shyam Shah Medical College (SSMC), Rewa, in the central India, M.P. between February 2019 and August 2020.Data of 127 patients with CKD were recorded and studied. The mean age of patients was 50.86±17.28 yr, 70.07 percent males and 29.93 percent female’s .84.70 percent were from rural area, mostly having >1 month of duration of CKD. 74.02% patients were in stage 5 of CKD, all on dialysis. 44.09% were associated with diabetes & 72.44% with hypertension. Most patients have Serum urea levels of >101 mg/dl with a mean level of 146.85 mg/dl, serum creatinine of >5mg/dl in most patients, serum hemoglobin levels of <7gm% in 54.33% and most have albuminuria.