Anemia and its predictors among chronic kidney disease patients in Sub-Saharan African countries: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Anemia is a serious complication of chronic kidney disease (CKD) with a significant adverse outcome on the burden and progression of the disease. Hence, the study intended to assess the pooled prevalence of anemia and its predictors among CKD patients in Sub-Saharan African nations.

Methods

To identify the relevant studies systematic searches were carried out in Medline, EMBASE, HINARI, Google Scholar, Science Direct, and Cochrane Library. From selected studies, data were taken out with a standardized data extraction format prepared in Microsoft Excel. Inverse variance (I2) tests were employed to evaluate the heterogeneity across the included studies. Due to substantial heterogeneity among the studies, a random-effects meta-analysis technique was employed to est

SUBMITTER: Taderegew MM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9894480 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature