Table 2. Clinical and laboratory features of children with acute kidney injury.
| Characteristics | Alln = 70 (100%) | <5 yearsn = 39 (55.7%) | ≥5 yearsn = 31 (44.3%) | p value |
| Male | 48 (68.6) | 28 (71.8) | 20 (64.5) | 0.52 |
| Diarrhoea at presentation | 22 (31.4) | 18 (46.2) | 4 (12.9) | 0.00 |
| Fever at presentation | 49 (70.0) | 30 (76.9) | 19 (61.3) | 0.16 |
| Oliguria | 49 (70.0) | 25 (64.1) | 24 (77.4) | 0.23 |
| Oedema | 45 (64.3) | 23 (59.0) | 22 (71.0) | 0.30 |
| Convulsion/loss of consciousness | 32 (45.7) | 16 (41.0) | 16 (51.6) | 0.38 |
| Hypertension | 35 (50.0) | 15 (38.5) | 20 (64.5) | 0.03 |
| WCC at admission >15 000/mm3 | 35 (50.0) | 22 (56.4) | 13 (41.9) | 0.23 |
| Platelet count <100 000/mm3 | 15 (21.4) | 12 (30.8) | 3 (9.70) | 0.03 |
| Serum potassium ≥5.5mmol/l | 29 (41.4) | 13 (33.3) | 16 (51.6) | 0.12 |
| Serum bicarbonate ≤15mmol/l | 49 (70.0) | 26 (66.7) | 23 (74.2) | 0.50 |
| AKI at presentation | 58 (82.9) | 33 (83.3) | 25 (79.3) | 0.66 |
| Admission eCCl <15ml/min/1.73 m2 | 23 (32.9) | 8 (20.5) | 15 (48.4) | 0.01 |
| Worst eCCl <15ml/min/1.73 m2 | 34 (48.6) | 17 (43.6) | 17 (54.8) | 0.35 |
| RIFLE category ‘F’ | 49 (70.0) | 27 (69.2) | 22 (71.0) | 0.88 |
| Needed dialysis | 22 (31.4) | 13 (33.3) | 9 (29.0) | 0.70 |
| Received dialysis | 15 (21.4) | 8 (20.5) | 7 (22.6) | 0.83 |
WCC: white cell count; eCCl: estimated creatinine clearance; RIFLE: ‘Risk’, ‘Injury’, ‘Failure’, ‘Loss’, ‘End stage’.