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- Title
Risk for acute kidney injury in primary health care.
- Authors
Laranjeira Rigonatto, Maria Célia; da Silva Magro, Marcia Cristina
- Abstract
Objective: To identify hypertensive and diabetic patients at risk for developing acute kidney injury in the primary health care setting. Method: Observational, longitudinal, prospective study. Sample of 56 diabetic and hypertensive individuals. A semi-structured questionnaire was adopted for data collection. For the description of results, were calculated dispersion measures and the Spearman test was used for statistical analysis. The result was considered significant when p <0.05. Results: Of the total sample, 23.2% of users evolved with renal impairment, of which 19.6% with risk for renal injury, and 3.6% with kidney injury itself. Age and body mass index were associated with worsening of renal function (p = 0.0001; p = 0.0003), respectively. Conclusion: A quarter of the health system users, hypertensive and diabetic, evolved with impaired renal function, more specifically to stages of risk for renal injury and kidney injury according to the RIFLE classification.
- Subjects
BRAZIL; ACUTE kidney failure; DIABETES complications; HYPERTENSION; INTERVIEWING; LONGITUDINAL method; RESEARCH methodology; SCIENTIFIC observation; PRIMARY health care; QUESTIONNAIRES; STATISTICS; DATA analysis; BODY mass index; DATA analysis software; DISEASE complications; DISEASE risk factors
- Publication
Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem, 2018, Vol 71, Issue 1, p20
- ISSN
0034-7167
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1590/0034-7167-2016-0551