Introduction: Chronic kidney disease is a major public health problem.The lack of community-based screening programs for chronic kidney disease, results in patient detection at advanced stages.The present study is a hospital camp-based screening for detecting patients with chronic kidney disease in Varanasi from 2008-11. Methods:The study subjects constituted 645 apparently healthy adults (age ≥18 years) of Varanasi.Information on socio-demographic profile, personal characteristics and clinical investigations were recorded.Stepwise binary logistic regression analysis was applied to find the significant predictors of chronic kidney disease.Results: Median age of the study subjects was 40 years.There were 60.8% males and 39.2% females.Chronic kidney disease was found in 46.7% subjects.Diabetes mellitus, hypertension and higher creatinine levels (≥1.30mg/dl) came out as significant predictors of chronic kidney disease.Discussion: We screened apparently healthy individuals and found very high percentages of chronic kidney disease and its related predictors.Henceforth, early screening for chronic kidney disease case detection along with its co morbidities becomes a prerequisite to reduce the load of health care delivery system that are involved in renal replacement therapy and treatment of other chronic diseases.
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