Prevalence Of Anemia In Dialysis Patients: Audit Of A Dialysis Center.

Abstract

Anemia is the most common hematological abnormality in chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients. Prevalence of anemia increases with falling kidney function. Anemia poses major health and cardiovascular risks in CKD patients. We conducted a study in our dialysis unit to evaluate prevalence of anemia in CKD-V-D patients. A total of 20 patients were evaluated among which 9 (45%) had hemoglobin less than the recommended levels. Anemia was found to be more prevalent in female patients (25%) as compared to male patients (20%). The major contributory factors of anemia in our population are inadequate dialysis and poor compliance to medication because of low affordability.