Prevalence, Clinical Presentation, and Outcome of Tuberculosis in Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease at a Tertiary Care Hospital in Nepal

Table 1

Demographic characteristics, staging, and laboratory parameters of CKD patients with and without tuberculosis.

Parameters	CKD with TB	CKD without TB	value
Age	44 ± 14	52 ± 18	<0.001
Male-to-female ratio	2.7 : 1	1.7 : 1	0.0001
Duration of CKD diagnosis in months	23.46 ± 23	15.7 ± 21.8	0.02
CKD stage
Stage 3	3	15	0.0001
Stage 4	8	43	0.0001
Stage 5	9	99	0.0001
Stage 5D	35	189	0.0001
Maintenance hemodialysis (MHD)	35	185	0.0001
Peritoneal dialysis	None	4	0.0001
Duration of MHD
<6 months	17	155	0.0001
6 to 12 months	8	15	0.0001
>12 months	10	15	0.0001
Session of MHD per week
One/week	1	2	0.25
Two/week	32	175	0.0001
Three/week	2	8	0.0001
Hemoglobin (gm/dL)	8.21	8.6	0.1
Hematocrit (%)	26.46	26.91	0.55
Total leukocyte count (per microlitre)	10267	8679	0.04
Urea (mmol/L)	26.36	27.27	0.61
Creatinine (umol/L)	752.83	781.1	0.64
iPTH (pg/dL)	251.43	328.61	0.036
Phosphorus (mg/dL)	4.76	4.61	0.65
Vitamin D (ng/dL)	24.45	28.48	0.06
Uric acid (umol/L)	425.12	448.92	0.34
Albumin (gm/L)	31.69	33.40	0.06
Corrected calcium (mmol/L)	2.02	1.92	0.02