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		𝑥^2 value	^*𝑃 values
	CKD % (𝑛=131)	Normal % (𝑛=869)
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

^*Data were analysed using Chi-squared (𝜒²) test, and level of significance was 0.05. 𝑑𝑓=1.