Risk Of Chronic Kidney Disease Among Agricultural Workers

Document Type : Review Articles

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1 Internal Medicine, Zagazig University

2 Internal Medicine department , faculty of medicine ;zagazig university

3 Internal medicine, faculty of medicine, zagazig university

Abstract

Background: Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is one of the non-communicable diseases with increases prevalence worldwide which causes kidney failure, with consequences that burden community and individuals which initiate global perception for prevention, early diagnosis, and screen of high-risk individuals to develop CKD to prevent complications, CKD has higher prevalence in agriculture community, with the emerge of CKD of unknown etiology (CKDu) that affects many parts of the world especially agriculture communities, aim of the work is to evaluate CKD prevalence in agriculture workers and its risk factors, and asses impact of the CKDu on them. Patients and Methods: This is a Cross-sectional study was carried out among apparently healthy people who are agriculture workers in Zagazig local villages between July 2023 to October 2023. The number of participants was 900, among them 579 males and 321 females, mean age 47.46±14.81 ranged from 20 to 77 years. Results: CKD prevalence was 24.7%, (6.75%) from CKD cases was stage 1, (45.5%) was stage 2, (38.7%) was stage 3, and (9%) was stage 4. No case of stage 5 in study group. and CKDu accounts for 19.8% from total CKD cases. About 33.3% of CKD cases were diabetic, 44.1% were hypertensive and 9.5% had history of obstructive uropathy. There was significant association between CKD and glomerulonephritis. About 45% of CKD cases showed low water consumption and they had significantly lower herbs consumption. CKD prevalence was higher in smokers than no CKD group. CKD cases were relatively higher mean age and BMI than CKDu,

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Zagazig University Medical Journal

Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript
Available Online from 07 April 2024

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