PMID: 18198742Jan 18, 2008Paper

Report from the Caribbean renal registry, 2006

The West Indian Medical Journal
A K Soyibo, E N Barton

Abstract

To develop a renal registry that will monitor renal epidemiology in the Caribbean and help determine the burden of disease. Questionnaires were sent out to different Caribbean countries for distribution to the dialysis units. Data were obtained for patients with End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) who were on long term renal replacement therapy in 2006. The demographic data, type of renal replacement therapy, laboratory data and causes of ESRD were obtained from the questionnaire. Data were analyzed using SPSS 11.0 Data were reported from six English-speaking Caribbean countries: Bahamas (n = 211), Barbados (n = 185), British Virgin Islands (n = 27), Cayman Islands (n = 41), Jamaica (n = 366) and Trinidad and Tobago (n = 436). Haemodialysis was reported in all the countries; transplantation was not reported from the Cayman Islands. Only Bahamas, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago reported peritoneal dialysis. In Jamaica, male to female ratio was 1.5:1. The three commonest causes of end stage renal failure were hypertension (65.5%), diabetes mellitus (27.6%) and primary chronic glomerulonephritis (12.5%). The age range was 11-94 years (mean 47.7 years). Barbados had a male to female ratio of 1.8:1, age range of 19-81 years (mean age: 52...Continue Reading

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