Economic analysis of blood pressure control in patients undergoing hemodialysis, ambulatory cyclical peritoneal dialysis, and automated peritoneal dialysis.

Abstract

Introduction: Population studies describe that sex profoundly affects kidney disease epidemiology. This study aimed to describe the epidemiological and clinical profile of women with kidney disease admitted to the critical care unit who required renal replacement therapy.

Methods: Descriptive, observational, cross-sectional study conducted at the National Women's Hospital in San Salvador between 2017 and 2021. The sample was non-probabilistic.

Results: Patients' most frequent age range is between 21 and 30 years, representing 46% of the population. 76% of the patients admitted to the study had obstetric pathology, while 24% only had gynecological pathology. Regarding chronic pathologies present at the time of starting RRT, 28% had no pre-existing chronic pathologies. In the rest of the population, renal pathology was present in 45% of the cases, the predominant one over other diagnoses.

Conclusion: In the female sex, gynecological and obstetric pathologies, both in the presence and absence of known renal disease, are associated with a high rate of need for renal replacement therapy.