The prevalence of dysnatremia in hemodialysis patients

The objective of this study was to assess the sodium and potassium levels in patients at different stage of chronic kidney disease, and determine the correlation between sodium and potassium with GFR. The current study is a case (patient with chronic renal failure) and control (healthy persons) study Chronic renal disease patients of both genders (65 males and 44 females) aged 20 to 71 years old who visit Al-jumhuri Hospital in Kirkuk, Iraq (from Novembe 2020 to February 2021), are the target population. Each patient with chronic kidney failure underwent four hours of hemodialysis twice or three times a week. The results of the current study demonstrated that the highest age group with renal failure was 51-60 years, where it was 26.2%. Then, the age group was 61-70, as it was 22.1%, while the lowest age group of patients of renal failure was 31-40, where it was 5.4%. The results of the current study showed that the percentage of healthy people in the current study was 40 (26.8%), while the number of patients with kidney failure was 83 (55.7%), while other stages of kidney disease were reported, the third stage included 9 (6%) patients while. The fourth stage included 17 (11.4%) patients. The findings of the current study showed that patients had higher levels of urea, creatinine, and potassium than the control group (P<0.05). In contrast, the results of the study demonstrated a significant (P≤0.05) reduction in patient sodium levels. Otherwise, the results of the current study demonstrated a positive relationship between CKD and sodium and inverse relationship with potassium.