PREVALENCE OF ACUTE RENAL FAILURE AMONG DIABETIC PATIENTS ATTENDING KIBOGORA HOSPITAL

Abstract

Diabetes mellitus is the most common epidemic disorder in world population. It is a chronic medical condition, and a cross sectional descriptive study. Nowadays, diabetes has become a common disease to the mankind from the young to the old persons. The growth of the diabetic patients is increasing day-by-day either in Rwanda or all over the world, due to various causes such as bacterial or viral infection, toxic or chemical contents mix with the food, auto immune reaction, obesity, bad diet, change in lifestyle, eating habit, environmental pollution, et cetera. The prevalence of diabetes is high among US population; using US renal data system, observations have shown that the number of individuals having diabetes listed as primary diagnosis who initiated ESRD treatment between 1990 and 2006 has increased from 17727 in 19990 to 48215 in 2006. According to the diabetes Atlas the prevalence of diabetes in Rwanda is about 3.16% of the population with1918 diabetes related deaths per year.