Research Article
Prevalence and Factors Associated with Acute Kidney Injury among Malaria Patients in Dar es Salaam: A Cross-Sectional Study
Table 1
Sociodemographic and clinical characteristics.
| Characteristics | Frequency | Percent | Mean ± SD |
| Age | | | | 18 -25 | 31 | 29.8 | 38.65±16.1 | 26 -45 | 27 | 26.0 | | 46 -65 | 38 | 36.5 | | >65 | 8 | 7.7 | | Sex | | | | Male | 68 | 65.4 | | Female | 36 | 34.6 | | Comorbidities | | | | None | 76 | 73.1 | | Hypertension | 11 | 10.6 | | Diabetes | 6 | 5.8 | | HIV | 2 | 1.9 | | Others | 9 | 8.7 | | Parasitemia at admission | | | | <0.5% | 12 | 11.5 | | 0.5-1.0% | 28 | 26.9 | | 1.1-5% | 49 | 47.1 | | 5.1-10% | 6 | 5.8 | | >10% | 9 | 8.7 | | Creatinine at admission | | | 144 ± 95.6 | Creatinine at day 2 | | | 140 ± 169.4 | Creatinine at day 7 | | | 98 ± 87.5 | Creatinine at day 90 | | | 80 ± 37 | Hemoglobin at admission (g/dl) | | | | <7.5 | 6 | 5.8 | 12.12±2.21 | 7.7-9 | 4 | 3.8 | | 9.1-11 | 14 | 13.5 | | >11 | 80 | 76.9 | | Platelet at admission | | | | <25 | 8 | 7.7 | 96.9±69 | 25-50 | 19 | 18.3 | | 51-100 | 39 | 37.5 | | 101-150 | 24 | 23.1 | | >150 | 14 | 13.5 | | Urine for protein | | | | None | 17 | 16.3 | | Trace | 20 | 19.2 | | 1 – 2+ | 58 | 55.8 | | >3+ | 9 | 8.7 | |
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