Survival Analysis of Kidney Disease Patients on Dialysis

Alamu Matthew. O, James Tolulope. O, Gerald I. Onwuka, Ishaq, O.O

Survival, Kidney Disease, hazard function, Kaplan Meier.

Kidney diseases (KD) are one of the major global public health problems with an increasing prevalence. In this study, Kaplan Meier model was used to estimate the survival time and the survival probability of the four significant diseases: hypertension, severe malaria, kidney Disease and acute renal function. A retrospective study was done on a sample of 467 Kidney diseases. The overall median survival time was 39.83. In the followed up period 224 (48.0%) patient died and 178 (38.1%) were censored, 61(13.1%) patients were lost to follow up and 4 (0.9%) were transplanted. The results indicate that hypertension, severe malaria, acute kidney infection and acute renal function increases hazard rate of the kidney disease patients on dialysis were statistically significantly, since their respectively P-values of 0.742, 0.099, 0.729, and 0.879 were greater than alpha-value of 0.05. The probability of survival of the hypertension, severe malaria, acute kidney infection and acute renal suggested a good survival.

https://dx.doi.org/10.31873/IJEAS.9.01.07