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Modified cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic stages and stroke-death transitions in middle-aged and older Chinese adults: a multistate Markov analysis of CHARLS

Preprint: cohort study of 14,458 peoplePopulations

Abstract

Background : Cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic (CKM) syndrome links adiposity, metabolic dysfunction, chronic kidney disease, and cardiovascular disease within a single prevention framework.

The paper

Tongji University

Research Square, 18 Aug 2026, CC BY, Preprint, not peer-reviewed

doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-10268622/v1