Anaemia in Patients on Haemodialysis Therapy in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Abstract

Moreover, anaemia has been linked with worse clinical outcomes such as increased morbidity and mortality due to cardiovascular disease [2]. This complication increases the risk of hospitalization and length of hospital stay and therefore dramatically reducing the quality of life of these patients [3][4][5]. End Stage Renal Disease is characterized by nutritional impairment, anaemia, hypertension, renal bone disease, neuropathy, nutritional impairment, and reduced life expectancy [6,7]. Anaemia worsens with progressive kidney disease implicating multiple factors being related to its etiology including inability of the failing kidneys to secrete the hormone erythropoietin, uremic toxins and excess aluminum accumulation on bone marrow of patients on long term dialysis, blood loss, increased red blood cell destruction and altered platelet function due to uremia among others [8].