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Lipid parameters and the risk of incident CKD: an analysis of conventional and composite lipid indices

Key takeaways

This study checked whether blood fat levels predict who later develops chronic kidney disease. It tested familiar measures like cholesterol and triglycerides along with combined scores that mix several blood fats into one number. It follows people over time without changing anything, so it shows a link between blood fats and kidney disease, not proof that one causes the other. The size of the risk and the number of people followed were not in the record available here.

Who did this work

Dandan Li (Henan University Huaihe Hospital and Huaihe Clinical Institute) · Zihan Song (Henan University Huaihe Hospital and Huaihe Clinical Institute) · XiaoCi Wang (Henan University Huaihe Hospital and Huaihe Clinical Institute) · Huimin Xu (Henan University Huaihe Hospital and Huaihe Clinical Institute) · X.F. Li (First Affiliated Hospital of Henan University of Science and Technology) · Shufang Yan (Henan University Huaihe Hospital and Huaihe Clinical Institute) · Tong Yu (Henan University Huaihe Hospital and Huaihe Clinical Institute) · Yang Liu (Henan University Huaihe Hospital and Huaihe Clinical Institute) · Zhanju Liu (First Affiliated Hospital of Henan University of Science and Technology) · Hongwei Jiang (Henan University of Science and Technology)

Source

Paper · OpenAlex, CKD works · 2026-09-12
https://doi.org/10.1186/s12902-026-02529-y