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Higher serum sodium-to-chloride ratio identifies near-term mortality risk in adults with confirmed chronic kidney disease: a retrospective landmark cohort study

Paper C Not peer reviewed Observational

Key takeaways

A retrospective study of 12,450 adults with chronic kidney disease found that a higher sodium-to-chloride ratio in blood was linked to a greater risk of dying within 30 days — but because it looked back at records, it cannot prove the ratio caused the higher risk.

Who did this work

X. Liu (Central Hospital of Wuhan) · Fan Zhu (Central Hospital of Wuhan) · Ni Zeng (Central Hospital of Wuhan) · Xingruo Zeng (Central Hospital of Wuhan)

Source

Paper · OpenAlex, Kidney disease concept sweep (verified C2778653478) · 2026-09-14
https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-10902236/v1