Table 1.

Socio-demographic characteristics for the study population

Variable	Non-CKD patients (n = 89)	CKD patients (n = 93)	p-value
median age in yrs. (IQR)	27 (23–31)	39 (30–51)	< 0.001
Gender n (%)
Male	16 (17.98)	40 (43.01)	0.01
Female	73 (82.02)	53 (57.0)	0.01
Education n(%)
None	9 (10.2)	11 (11.8)	0.88
Primary	34 (38.2)	38 (40.7)	0.81
Secondary	31 (34.8)	29 (31.2)	0.75
high school	5 (5.6)	5 (5.4)	0.99
Tertiary	10 (11.4)	10 (10.8)	0.97
Religion n (%)
Protestant	25 (28.1)	27 (29.0)	0.96
Catholic	32 (36.0)	37 (39.8)	0.81
Muslim	19 (21.4)	15 (16.1)	0.76
Pentecostal	1 (1.1)	2 (2.2)	0.95
Other	12 (13.5)	12 (12.9)	0.97
Occupation n(%)
Unemployed	35 (39.3)	51 (54.8)	0.09
employed-salary earner	19 (21.4)	19 (20.4)	0.92
self-employed	35 (39.4)	23 (24.7)	0.11
Marital status n (%)
Married	14 (15.9)	17 (18.3)	0.89
Cohabiting	42 (47.7)	30 (32.3)	0.34
Separated	1 (1.1)	4 (4.3)	0.85
Widowed	1 (1.1)	5 (5.4)	0.80
Single	30 (34.1)	37 (39.8)	0.73