Clinical Study
Prevalence of Chronic Kidney Disease and Its Association with Risk Factors in Disadvantageous Population
Table 2
Association between CKD (MDRD equation) and sociodemographic variables.
| Socio-demographic variables | Group | value |
* values | CKD % () | Normal % () |
| Middle-aged and elderly (age > 40 yrs) | 54.2 | 22.2 | 59.95 | <0.001 | Sex (female) | 62.6 | 67.2 | 1.087 | 0.297 | Occupation (housewives) | 44.3 | 39.2 | 0.304 | 0.142 | Income (≤ 2000 BDT or USD ≤ 30) | 56.3 | 59.0 | 0.304 | 0.581 | Literacy (illiterate) | 77.9 | 78.9 | 0.79 | 0.778 | Marital status (married) | 93.9 | 83.3 | 9.83 | 0.002 |
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*Data were analysed using Chi-squared () test, and level of significance was 0.05. .
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