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Sex differences in cardiac function and remodelling in patients with preserved left ventricular ejection fraction across all stages of chronic kidney disease.

Article C Peer reviewed Observational

Key takeaways

Doctors reviewed heart scans from 84 people with kidney disease across all five stages, matched for sex, plus healthy people for comparison. Everyone had normal heart pumping strength, so the study looked instead at changes in the heart's shape and how it fills. Women and men with kidney disease showed different patterns of change. This is a look back at old records, so it shows a link between sex and heart changes, not proof that one causes the other.

Who did this work

Kamieniarz P · Plietz AS · Urbach LV · Aleixo CD · Elgeti T · Vogel-Claussen J · Taupitz M · Schaafs LA

Source

Article · PubMed, CKD severity and reversal · 2026 Sep 10
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42720588/