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In daily work, we notice an increasing number of patients referred to a nephrologist without diagnostic tests necessary for proper assessment and treatment plan. Our aim was to show how many patients are referred to a nephrology specialist for the fi rst time with complete diagnostic workup. We included 184 patients (89 male and 95 female) newly referred to the Merkur University Hospital nephrology specialist due to chronic kidney disease (CKD, stages 3A and above) from 2017 until 2020. We analyzed blood pressure values, 24-h ambulatory blood pressure monitor (ABPM) and laboratory test results (hemoglobin, hematocrit, glucose, potassium, creatinine, sodium, cholesterol, calcium, urates, and urine) of patients having presented them at the check-up. Most of the referred patients had CKD stage G3 (G3A 15 patients, G3B 82 patients, 52.15%), while 71 (38.17%) patients had CKD stage G4 and 18 (9.67%) patients CKD stage 5. Women were statistically signifi cantly older (74.08 vs. 70.49 years, p |
