Research Article
Prevalence, Clinical Presentation, and Outcome of Tuberculosis in Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease at a Tertiary Care Hospital in Nepal
Table 1
Demographic characteristics, staging, and laboratory parameters of CKD patients with and without tuberculosis.
| Parameters | CKD with TB | CKD without TB | value |
| Age | 44 ± 14 | 52 ± 18 | <0.001 | Male-to-female ratio | 2.7 : 1 | 1.7 : 1 | 0.0001 | Duration of CKD diagnosis in months | 23.46 ± 23 | 15.7 ± 21.8 | 0.02 |
| CKD stage | | | | Stage 3 | 3 | 15 | 0.0001 | Stage 4 | 8 | 43 | 0.0001 | Stage 5 | 9 | 99 | 0.0001 | Stage 5D | 35 | 189 | 0.0001 |
| Maintenance hemodialysis (MHD) | 35 | 185 | 0.0001 | Peritoneal dialysis | None | 4 | 0.0001 |
| Duration of MHD | | | | <6 months | 17 | 155 | 0.0001 | 6 to 12 months | 8 | 15 | 0.0001 | >12 months | 10 | 15 | 0.0001 |
| Session of MHD per week | | | | One/week | 1 | 2 | 0.25 | Two/week | 32 | 175 | 0.0001 | Three/week | 2 | 8 | 0.0001 |
| Hemoglobin (gm/dL) | 8.21 | 8.6 | 0.1 | Hematocrit (%) | 26.46 | 26.91 | 0.55 | Total leukocyte count (per microlitre) | 10267 | 8679 | 0.04 | Urea (mmol/L) | 26.36 | 27.27 | 0.61 | Creatinine (umol/L) | 752.83 | 781.1 | 0.64 | iPTH (pg/dL) | 251.43 | 328.61 | 0.036 | Phosphorus (mg/dL) | 4.76 | 4.61 | 0.65 | Vitamin D (ng/dL) | 24.45 | 28.48 | 0.06 | Uric acid (umol/L) | 425.12 | 448.92 | 0.34 | Albumin (gm/L) | 31.69 | 33.40 | 0.06 | Corrected calcium (mmol/L) | 2.02 | 1.92 | 0.02 |
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