Arterial Hypertension in Dialysis Patients: Impacts of Age, Gender, Dialysis Characteristics and Etiologies of Chronic Kidney Diseases

Hypertension is common in chronic kidney diseases. The study was done in a six month period. Totally 77 dialysis cases including 39 (50.6%) peritoneal dialysis and 38 (49.4%) hemodialysis patients enrolled the study. in overall 38 cases (49.4%) had arterial hypertension. In 17 (22.1%) and 22 patients (28.5%) blood pressures were in normal or prehypertension ranges respectively. In hypertensive patients there was a shorter time from onset of dialysis (P=0.054), and also glomerular disorders as etiology of chronic kidney diseases were more prevalent (P=0.057), but no significant differences were found based on gender, modality of dialysis, anuria and non-anuria conditions and characteristics of dialysis (hours of dialysis weekly in HD and volume of dialysis daily (cc/kg/ day) in CAPD cases (P>0.05 for all). We found that hypertension is a common complication of CKD, patients and dialysis characteristics and also etiology of CKD didn't have significant impact on prevalence of hypertension.