Introduction:

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) in older adults is highly prevalent and is associated with multiple risk factors.

Objective:

To identify elderly patients with CKD who attend the nephrology outpatient clinic at the Comprehensive Community Health Center (CSIC) Chacaltaya, El Alto, Bolivia, in the period between September and December 2018.

Materials and methods:

Observational, descriptive and cross-sectional study performed in an outpatient nephrology clinic in CISC Chacaltaya, El Alto, Bolivia. The universe was 203 patients. The following variables were analyzed: age, sex, marital status, occupation, personal pathological background, classification of CKD. The formula Modification of Diet in Renal Disease was abbreviated to determine the degree of the disease. To give an exit, descriptive statistics were used (absolute and relative frequencies, chi-square test). Informed consent was taken into account.

Results:

Stage 2 of the disease prevails, with 44.3%, followed by stage 3a, with 21.7%; it was more prevalent in the age group of 7079 years and more in women than in men. The risk factors that are related to chronic kidney disease in our study were age, female gender, diabetes mellitus and malnutrition by excess, proteinuria and anemia.

Conclusions:

CKD presents a high prevalence in the population over 60 years of age; its early diagnosis plays an important role in its integral approach at the primary health level.

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