Euclides Nenga Manuel Sacomboio, Eduardo Ekundi-Valentim, Cruz dos Santos Sebastiao, Carlos Alberto Pinto de Sousa, Mauricio da Costa, Silvana da Rocha Silveira, Edson Kuatelela Cassinela, Adelino Tchilanda Tchivango and Orlando Frederico Sicato Hungulo
Introduction: CKD is an important public health concern in SSA, the risk is generally strongly associated with traditional risk factors such as age and chronic diseases, such as diabetes and hypertension. Objective: investigate the relationship between ABO/Rh blood groups and clinical characteristics among patients with CKD in Luanda, Angola.
Methodology: a cross-sectional study in patients diagnosed with CKD and undergoing hemodialysis at Josina Machel-Maria Hospital.
Results: 140 patients with CKD were enrolled in this study. About 55.7% (78/140) of patients were from the ORh+ blood group, followed by ARh+ (20%wh), and BRh+ (17,8%), who lived in urban (52.2%) and rural (30.7%) areas, born in the north of Angola (67.1%), doing hemodialysis treatment between 6 years-10 years (50.7%), the underlying disease was hypertension (68.6%) and malaria(13,6%), the highest mean age was ABRh+ while the lowest age was in ORh- patient. The statistical evaluation showed no relationship between the studied demographic and clinical characteristics, data, and blood groups (p˃0.05).
Conclusion: CKD is predominant in young people, ORh+ blood group, followed by ARh+ and BRh+ , indiscriminately of the gender, especially individuals with low academic level, from urban and peri-urban regions, most patients have been on dialysis for less than 10 years, where the most common underlying diseases were hypertension and malaria.