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Article Name - Gender Based Prevalence and Associated Factors of Chronic Kidney Disease Patients Attending Hemodialysis Maintenance at Mnazi Mmoja Hospital in Zanzibar

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  • Keywords Prevalence of CKD • Risk factors • Diabetes • Hypertension • Testosterone ... 2026-01-02
  • Abbreviations CKD: Chronic Kidney Disease; ESRD: End-Stage Renal Disease; M/1/H: Mnazi Mmoja Hospital in Zanzibar ... 2026-01-02
  • Introduction Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) is an abnormality of kidney structure or function that is present for more than 3 months, resulting in a progressive loss of renal function that can occur over a year [1-4 ... 2026-01-02
  • Materials and Methods Study design and duration This was a cross-sectional prospective study conducted in 2022 in a hemodialysis unit at Mnazi Mmoja Hospital in Zanzibar. Study area The study was conducted in the ... 2026-01-02
  • Results Gender prevalence, demographic and clinical characteristics of the study participants the study participants were 97, CKD male prevalence was 56 (57.7%) while female was 41 (42.3%) (Table 1). ... 2026-01-02
  • Discussion The current study was conducted specifically to explore the prevalence of chronic kidney diseases patients and its associated factors based on gender criteria in Zanzibar. The study observed that CKD ... 2026-01-02
  • Conclusion The study observed that the prevalence of male CKD was higher than that of females. Old age, hypertension, and diabetes were risk factors for the progression of CKD although were slightly higher in ma ... 2026-01-02
  • Acknowledgments I would like to express my appreciation to all Staff of the Department of Physiology at the Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, fellow students, the Dialysis unit of M/1/Hospital as we ... 2026-01-02
  • Funding This was a nonrefundable study. ... 2026-01-02
  • Availability of Data and Materials The data are available from the corresponding author (hamadsuleiman558@gmail.com) on reasonable request. ... 2026-01-02
  • Authors’ Contributions All authors contributed to the study conception and study design. HM wrote a whole research paper on the Supervision of FM and AT from scratch to the end of the study. ... 2026-01-02
  • Ethics Approval and Consent to Participate Ethical clearance for conducting this study was obtained from the Institution Review Board of the Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences (MUHAS) and ZAHREC from Zanzibar. A Swahili formal ... 2026-01-02
  • Consent for Publication NA. ... 2026-01-02
  • Competing Interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests. ... 2026-01-02
  • References Abd ElHafeez, Samar, Davide Bolignano, Graziella D’Arrigo, and Evangelia Dounousi, et al. "Prevalence and burden of chronic kidney disease among the general population and high-risk grou ... 2026-01-05