Sarah J Schrauben, Jesse Y Hsu, Sylvia E Rosas, Bernard G Jaar, Xiaoming Zhang, Rajat Deo, Georges Saab, Jing Chen, Swati Lederer, Radhika Kanthety, L Lee Hamm, Ana C Ricardo, James P Lash, Harold I Feldman, Amanda H Anderson
BACKGROUND: To slow chronic kidney disease (CKD) progression and its complications, patients need to engage in self-management behaviors. The objective of this study was to classify CKD self-management behaviors into phenotypes and assess the association of these phenotypes with clinical outcomes. STUDY DESIGN: Prospective cohort study. SETTING & PARTICIPANTS: Adults with mild to moderate CKD enrolled in the Chronic Renal Insufficiency Cohort (CRIC) Study...
March 24, 2018: American Journal of Kidney Diseases: the Official Journal of the National Kidney Foundation