Clinical Study
Prevalence and Correlates of Microalbuminuria in Children with Sickle Cell Anaemia: Experience in a Tertiary Health Facility in Enugu, Nigeria
Table 2
Age, gender, social class, and number of hospitalizations of subjects and controls with and without microalbuminuria.
| | Variables | All subjects [] | All controls [] | | With MA | W/OMA | | -Value | With MA | W/OMA | | value |
| | Microalbuminuria | 37 (18.5%) | 163 (81.5%) | | | 5 (2.5%) | 195 (97.5%) | | | | Age (in years) | | | | | | | | | | 4–8 | 6 (11.1) | 48 (88.9) | 22–68 | 0.001 | 0 (0.0) | 54 (100.0) | 3.74 | 0.154 | | 9–13 | 7 (8.5) | 75 (91.5) | 2 (2.4) | 80 (97.6) | | 14–17 | 24 (37.5) | 40 (62.5) | 3 (4.7) | 61 (95.3) | | Gender | | | | | | | | | | Male | 19 (17.4) | 90 (82.6) | 0.182 | 0.70 | 2 (1.9) | 103 (98.1) | 0.01 | 0.96 | | Female | 18 (19.4) | 73 (80.6) | 3 (3.2) | 92 (96.8) | | Social class | | | | | | | | | | 1 | 5 (27.8) | 13 (72.2)
| 1.113
| 0.288 | 1 (4.0) | 24 (96.0) | 0.26 | 0.607 | | 2 | 6 (22.2) | 21 (77.8) | 0.29
| 0.592 | 0 (0.0) | 46 (100.0) | 0.49 | 0.266 | | 3 | 8 (19.0) | 34 (39.0)
| 0.01
| 0.918 | 2 (4.1) | 47 (95.9) | 0.08 | 0.772 | | 4 | 9 (9.5) | 86 (90.5)
| 9.78
| 0.002 | 1 (1.5) | 67 (98.5) | 0.04 | 0.848 | | 5 | 9 (50.0) | 9 (50.0)
| 13.02
| 0.001 | 1 (8.3) | 11 (91.7) | 0.09 |
0.762 | | Number of Hospitalizations | | | | | | | | | | (in the preceding 24 months) | | | | | | | | | | None | 6 (3.9) | 146 (96.1) | 88.915 | 0.001 | | | | | | Once | 4 (30.8) | 9 (69.2) | | | | | | Twice | 7 (63.6) | 4 (36.4) | | | | | | ≥3 | 20 (83.3) | 4 (16.7) | | | | |
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Key—With MA: with microalbuminuria; W/O MA: without microalbuminuria.
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