A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Nonpharmacologic-based Interventions for Aortic Stiffness in End-Stage Renal Disease
Bibliographic record
Abstract
INTRODUCTION: Increased carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity (cf-PWV) in end-stage renal disease (ESRD) indicates enhanced aortic stiffness and mortality risk. We conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis of nonpharmacologic interventions in adults with ESRD to determine their effects on cf-PWV, systolic blood pressure (SBP), and intervention-associated adverse events. METHODS: MEDLINE, EMBASE, and EBM databases were searched. Study screening, selection, data collection, and methodological quality assessments were performed by 2 independent reviewers. Pooled-effect estimates from mean differences and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) were calculated using random effect models. RESULTS: = 0.93). CONCLUSIONS: Several nonpharmacologic interventions effectively decrease aortic stiffness in ESRD. The impact of these interventions on cardiovascular outcomes and mortality risk reduction in ESRD requires further study.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.007 | 0.011 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".