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Jul 2026
Life-Course Fertility and Cardio-Kidney-Metabolic Health in Chinese Middle-Aged and Older Women: A Cross-Sectional CHARLS Study
Background The cardio-kidney-metabolic (CKM) syndrome, recently conceptualized by the American Heart Association (AHA) in 2023, integrates cardiovascular, renal, and metabolic dysfunction into a unified staging framework. To date, no study worldwide has examined the association between parity and CKM syndrome stages. F...
Jia-Ping Lu, Heng Xu, Qiu-Lian Xu
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