Clinical Study
Prevalence of Chronic Kidney Disease and Its Association with Risk Factors in Disadvantageous Population
Table 3
Association of CKD (Cockcroft-Gault equation) with risk-factors.
| Risk factors | Group | value |
* values | CKD % () | Normal % () |
| Over-wt and obese (BMI ≥ 25 kg/M2)# | 25.6 | 19.6 | 2.94 | 0.086 | Use of tobacco# | 58.1 | 39.4 | 19.28 | <0.001 | DM (self-reported + RBS > 11.1 mg/dL) # | 10.6 | 2.9 | 20.62 | <0.001 | HTN (self-reported + newly diagnosed)# | 31.9 | 7.7 | 76.35 | <0.001 | Combined DM and HTN* | 3.8 | 0.6 | 8.71 | 0.004 | Combined DM, HTN, and proteinuria* | 2.5 | 0.4 | 6.209 | 0.015 |
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#Data were analysed using Chi-squared () test.
*Data were analysed with the help of Fisher’s exact test; level of significance was 0.05. .
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