Chronic renal failure in al-Anbar of Iraq

Abstract EN

There is no precise study of the epidemiology and prevalence of chronic renal failure in Al-Anbar, Iraq.

Therefore, we studied 230 hemodialysis (HD) patients at the HD unit of Al-Ramadi teaching hospital during the period from April 1, 2008 to April 1, 2009.

There were 124 (53 %) male patients with a mean age of 48 ± 18.5 years and 146 (63 %) patients were older than 40 years.

The estimated prevalence of chronic renal failure was 141 patients per million populations.

Diabetes mellitus (33 %) and hypertension (22.6 %) were the most common causes of chronic renal failure, followed in order by obstructive uropathy in 17.3 %, undetermined causes in 14 %, pyelonephritis in 4.7 %, glomerulonephritis in 4.3 %, and polycystic kidney disease in 3.9 %.

This study suggests that large number of patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) have diabetes and hypertension.

However, those patients with undetermined cause still form a significant portion of etiology of ESRD, and this reflects late referral combined with diagnostic limitations.