Muscle health and cardiovascular risk across stages of Cardiovascular-Kidney-Metabolic syndrome: A prospective cohort study.
BACKGROUND Cardiovascular-Kidney-Metabolic (CKM) syndrome represents a progressive cardiometabolic continuum. Whether the association between skeletal muscle health and cardiovascular risk is consistent across CKM stages remains unclear. METHODS We analyzed 8405 adults free of cardiovascular disease from the China He...