1 DOI: https://doi.org/10.47391/JPMA.4507 1 2 Frequency of iron deficiency anaemia in chronic kidney disease patients 3 not on dialysis 4 5 Faryal Kamil, Murtaza Dhrolia, Aamna Hamid, Ruqaya Qureshi, Kiran Nasir, 6 Aasim Ahmad 7 Department of Nephrology, The Kidney Centre Post Graduate Training Institute, Karachi, Pakistan. 8 Correspondence: Murtaza Dhrolia. Email: mfdhrolia@hotmail.com 9 10 Abstract 11 Objective: To determine the frequency of iron deficiency anaemia in non-dialysis 12 chronic kidney disease patients. 13 Method: The observational, cross-sectional study was conducted at the Department of 14 Nephrology, The Kidney Centre Post-Graduate Training Institute, Karachi, from April 15 27 to October 26 , 2018, and comprised adult patients of either gender diagnosed with 16 anaemia and estimated glomerular filtration rate <90ml/min. Patient with transferrin 17 saturation <20% were labelled as having iron deficiency anaemia. Data was analysed 18 using SPSS 21. 19 Results: Of the 366 participants, 185(50.5%) were males and 181(49.5%) were females. 20 The overall mean age was 54.47±14.93 years. The most prevalent comorbid was 21 hypertension 263(71.9%), followed by diabetes mellitus 187(51.1%) and cardiovascular 22 disease 54(14.8%). Besides, 192(52.5%) patients had CKD stage 5 followed by 23 115(31.4%) and 54(14.8%) with CKD stages 4 and 3, respectively. The mean 24 haemoglobin was 9.17±1.57g/dL. Iron deficiency was found in 285(77.9%) patients. 25 Conclusion: Iron deficiency anaemia was found to be highly prevalent and should be 26 screened routinely and managed appropriately. 27 Key Words: Iron deficiency, Anaemia, Chronic kidney disease. 28 Provisionally Accepted for Publication