Chronic renal disease in elder people

Abstract

Founding principle: chronic renal insufficiency is defined as the kidney structural or functional damage, evidenced by markers of damage (urine, blood or images) for a period of three months or more. Between 8 and 10 % of the general adult population has some renal damage.
Objective: to know the incidence and prevalence of the chronic renal disease in elder people, in the Teaching Clinic Surgical Hospital Comandante Faustino Pérez Hernández. 
Methods: a retrospective descriptive longitudinal study was carried out. The sample was formed by 274 patients fulfilling the inclusion criteria. The used variables were: age, sex, skin color, weight, personal pathological antecedents, entering cause, chronic renal disease´s progression factors, toxic habits and creatinine value. For organizing the obtained indicators we applied the descriptive statistic method, analyzing the information through frequency distribution tables, graphics resuming measures as average and mode for the quantitative variables, and absolute numbers and percentage for the qualitative variables.  
Results: high nosocomial prevalence of the chronic renal disease in elder people, more frequent in the female sex and white people; coexistence of many risk factors, predominating arterial hypertension, cardiopathies, diabetes mellitus, age and smoking. The most frequently found progression factors were de decompensated arterial hypertension, renal hypoperfusion and sepsis.
Conclusions:there is high nosocomial prevalence of the chronic renal disease in elder people.