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Temporal sequence in chronic kidney disease risk assessment in primary biliary cholangitis

Key takeaways

This study looked at when kidney disease shows up in people who have primary biliary cholangitis, a long-term liver disease that damages the bile ducts. The point was to work out the order of events: whether the liver disease comes first and the kidney trouble follows. It is observational, so it shows a link in timing, not proof that one causes the other. The record has no abstract, so the number of patients and the follow-up time are not available here.

Who did this work

Huijuan Cheng (Fujian University of Traditional Chinese Medicine) · Zhe Zhang (Fujian University of Traditional Chinese Medicine) · Lu Feng (Fujian University of Traditional Chinese Medicine)

Source

Paper · OpenAlex, CKD works · 2026-09-03
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00535-026-02512-3