Abstract

Aim: To determine the frequency of dyslipidemia in chronic kidney disease patients presenting at Bahawal Victoria Hospital, Bahawalpur.

Methods: This cross sectional study was conducted at Department of Medicine, Bahawal Victoria Hospital, Bahawalpur from April 2019 to October 2019 over the period of 6 months. Total 137 patients with chronic kidney disease having age 20-60 years either male or female, on hemodialysis at least 1 time/week and duration of CKD >3 months were selected for this study. Dyslipidemia was assessed in selected patients.

Results: Age range in this study was from 20 to 60 years with mean age of 41.54 ± 9.07 years, mean duration of disease was 5.80 ± 2.26 months and mean BMI was 27.53 ± 3.03 kg/m2. Out of 137 patients of CKD, dyslipidemia was found in 87 (63.50%) patients. Dyslipidemia was found in 32 (42.67%) patients of age group 20-40 years and 55 (88.71%) patients of age group 41-60 years. Statistically significant association of dyslipidemia with age group was seen with p value 0.0001. Dyslipidemia was seen in 42 (55.26%) male patients and 45 (73.77%) female patients. Association of dyslipidemia with gender was statistically significant with p value 0.025.

Conclusion: This study concluded that frequency of dyslipidemia in chronic kidney disease patients is very high. So, we recommend that early screening of dyslipidemia in these particular patients should be done so that some preventive measures can be taken in these particular patients for reducing the progression of the disease which in turn reduce the morbidity and mortality of our patients.

Keywords: chronic kidney disease, dyslipidemia, cholesterol.