Table 4.

Etiology of CKD in Cameroon

First author	Year of publication	Study area	Study Design	Study setting	Study population	Mean age (in years)	Male (%)	Sample size	Etiologies
Halle [35]	2014	Urban	Cross-sectional	Hospital-based	Patients on maintenance hemodialysis	49.4	66.4	113	Hypertension (25.6%), Chronic glomerulonephritis (20.6%), diabetes mellitus (17.4%)
Kaze [36]	2014	Urban	Cross-sectional	Hospital-based	Patients on maintenance hemodialysis	52.7	64.0	45	Hypertension (29%), chronic glomerulonephritis (24%), Diabetes mellitus (24%)
Halle [37]	2015	Urban	Retrospective cohort	Hospital-based	Patients with ESRD	47.4	66.0	863	Hypertension (30.9%), glomerulonephritis (15.8%), diabetes mellitus (15.9%), HIV (6.6%), unknown (14.7%)
Kaze [38]	2015	Urban	Retrospective cohort	Hospital-based	Patients admitted in the nephrology unit	44.8	60.0	225	Chronic glomerulonephritis (25.9%), hypertension (22.3%), diabetes mellitus (20.1%)
Halle [39]	2016	Urban	Prospective cohort	Hospital-based	Patients on maintenance hemodialysis	46.3	66.0	661	Hypertension (28.3%), chronic glomerulonephritis (17.5%), diabetes mellitus (13.9%), hypertension and diabetes (7.3%), HIV (6.7%), unknown (16.9%)
Halle [40]	2016	Urban	Cross-sectional	Hospital-based	Maintenance hemodialysis	51	66.0	97	Hypertension (25.8%) Chronic glomerulonephritis (20.6%) Diabetes mellitus (17,5%)
Luma [41]	2017	Semi-urban	Cross-sectional	Hospital-based	Hemodialysis patients	48	65.4	104	Hypertension (40.4%), chronic glomerulonephritis (19.2%), HIVAN (11.5%), Diabetes mellitus (7.7%), obstructive nephropathy (2.9%), unknown (13.5%)
Moor [42]	2017	Urban	Cross-sectional	Hospital-based	Patients on maintenance hemodialysis	55	75.0	44	Hypertension (59.1%), Diabetes mellitus (11.4%)

NR Not Reported, ESRD End stage renal disease, HIVAN HIV associated nephropathy