Identification of Socioeconomic Variables Responsible for Hypertensive Kidney Disease among Bangladeshi Adults

Abstract

The study was conducted to identify some socioeconomic variables responsible for the prevalence of hypertensive kidney disease among Bangladeshi adults of 18 years and above. For this, 498 males and 497 females, totalling 995 adults of both urban and rural localities were investigated. In the sample there were 17.6% hypertensive adults and 18.9% of them were suffering from hypertension and kidney disease simultaneously. Beside other percentages of respondents, there were 19.6% elderly people of ages 50 years and above, 30.2% obese adults, 67.0% diabetic patients, 44.4% involved in sedentary activity and 33.1% smokers. The overall percentage of hypertensive kidney patients was 3.3. These group of patients were discriminated from the remaining 96.7% adults. During discrimination duration of diabetes was identified as most responsible variable followed by age, body mass index, sedentary activity, smoking habit, etc. The risk of prevalence of hypertensive kidney disease was 12.25 times in diabetic patients suffering for 15 years and above compared to the risk of prevalence in other adults. The risk was 8.43 times in elderly people, 16.80 times in obese adults, 2.50 times in adults involved in sedentary activity, and 1.91 times in smoker adults. Higher risk rate was also observed in adults of lower economic group of families.