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ID Design 2012/DOOEL Skopje

Open Access Macedonian Journal of Medical Sciences.

http://dx.doi.org/10.3889/oamjms.2016.010
eISSN: 1857-9655

Clinical Science

 

 

Association between Nephrolithiasis, Hypertension and Obesity in Polycystic Kidney Disease


 

Valbona Bajrami1*, Alma Idrizi2, Enver Roshi3, Myftar Barbullushi2

1Diagnostic Center Ikeda, Tirana, Albania; 2Service of Nephrology, UHC Mother Teresa, Tirana, Albania; 3Department of Public Health, UHC Mother Teresa, Tirana, Albania
 

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AIM: We aim to define the correlations between nephrolithiasis, hypertension, age and obesity in patients with autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD) in Albania.

MATERIAL AND METHODS: We included 100 patients with autosomal dominant polycystic kidney from 2011 to 2014. The patients underwent X-ray and renal ultrasonography. We performed the metabolic evaluation of blood and urine.

RESULTS: The patients with renal stones had a higher level of mean systolic and diastolic blood pressure compared with patients without stones (155 ± 12 mmHg vs. 145 ± 8 mmHg, and 105 ± 0.9 mmHg vs. 92 ± 1.28 mmHg, respectively). Patients with renal stones were older (47 ± 15 vs. 38 ± 5 years), had a higher prevalence of obesity [body mass index (BMI): 28 ± 2.4 vs. 25.7 ± 0.6], had higher levels of total cholesterol level (220 ± 5 mg/dl vs. 203 ± 4 mg/dl) as well as triglyceride levels (160 ± 9 mg/dl vs. 126 ± 4 mg/dl), compared with no renal stone individuals.

CONCLUSION: ADPKD patients with renal stones in our study had a higher mean level of systolic and diastolic blood pressure, BMI and cholesterol and triglycerides levels compared with individuals without renal stones.

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Citation: Bajrami V, Idrizi A, Roshi E, Barbullushi M. Association between Nephrolithiasis, Hypertension and Obesity in Polycystic Kidney Disease. OA Maced J Med Sci. http://dx.doi.org/10.3889/oamjms.2016.010
Key words: nephrolithiasis; hypertension; polycystic kidney disease; body mass index, anatomic and metabolic factors.
*Correspondence: Valbona Bajrami, Dibra Street, 372, Tirana, Albania. Tel: +3556/Fax: +35542363644. E-mail: v.bajrami@yahoo.com
Received: 31-Oct-2015; Revised: 15-Dec-2015; Accepted: 18-Dec-2015; Online first: 24-Dec-2015
Copyright: © 2016 Valbona Bajrami, Alma Idrizi, Enver Roshi, Myftar Barbullushi. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
 

 

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