Clinical Profile and Outcome of Patients with Acute Kidney Injury Requiring Hemodialysis: Two Years’ Experience at a Tertiary Hospital in Rwanda

Table 2

Predictors of mortality in patients with acute kidney injury requiring hemodialysis.

Variable	Bivariate			Multivariate
	Survivors	Nonsurvivors	value	Odds ratio	95% CI	value
Age
</=45	34 (%)	15 (%)	0.411
>45 years	20	13
Sex
Male	29	13	0.532
Female	25	15
HIV
No	51	23	0.115
Yes	3	5
HD sessions
<5	3	12	<0.0001	4.01	1.185–13.611	0.026
>6	51	8
Hyperkalemia
No	34	11	<0.0001	3.23	1.040–10.065	0.043
Yes	20	17
Acidosis
No	45	22	0.597
Yes	9	6
Pulmonary edema
No	23	14	0.523
Yes	31	14
Hypertension
No	33	15	0.511
Yes	21	13
CKD
No	49	27	0.659
Yes	5	1
CVD
No	48	23	0.395
Yes	6	5

CI: confidence interval; HIV: human immunodeficiency virus; HD: haemodialysis; CKD: chronic kidney disease; CVD: cardiovascular diseases.