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Associations of life’s crucial 9 and its components with all-cause and cardiovascular mortality in diabetic kidney disease patients

Paper C Peer reviewed Observational

Key takeaways

Researchers scored people who have kidney damage from diabetes on a 9-part heart-health checklist called Life's Crucial 9. The nine parts are diet, exercise, sleep, smoking, weight, blood pressure, blood sugar, cholesterol, and mental health. People with better scores died less often, both from any cause and from heart disease. This is an observational study, so it shows a link, not proof that raising your score makes you live longer.

Who did this work

Chao Chen · Wen Wen · Lu Wang

Source

Paper · OpenAlex, Kidney disease concept sweep (verified C2778653478) · 2026-08-31
https://doi.org/10.5414/cn112078