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SUBMITTER: McMahon GM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4214518 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
McMahon Gearoid M GM Preis Sarah R SR Hwang Shih-Jen SJ Fox Caroline S CS
Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : JASN 20140626 11
Early identification of CKD risk factors may allow risk factor modification and prevention of CKD progression. We investigated the hypothesis that risk factors are present ≥30 years before the diagnosis of CKD in a case-control study using data from the Framingham Offspring Study. Patients with incident CKD (eGFR≤60 ml/min per 1.73 m2) at examination cycles 6, 7, and 8 were age- and sex-matched 1:2 to patients without CKD at baseline (examination 5). CKD risk factors were measured at each examin ...[more]