EFFECT OF THE HEMODIALYSIS DURATION, AGE AND GENDER ON THE EMERGENCE OF THE RENAL OSTEODYSTROPHY SYMPTOMS

The study comprises 185 patients who are at the hemodialysis (HD) in the hemodialysis center of the Clinic for Nephrology of the Clinical Center Nis. The factors analyzed in the hemodialytic patients are: duration of the hemodialysis according to which the patients were divided into two groups (shorter and longer than 5 years), age on the basis of which the patients were divided into three groups (younger than 30, subjects of 30 to 60 years of age and older than 60) and gender. In all 185 hemodialytic patients the most frequent symptoms of renal osteodystrophy were examined on the basis of visualization and the use of verbal symptoms score (VSS). For the statistical processing, the student t-test and the Mantzel Haencel tests were used while the differences at the levels p < 0.01 and p