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Elevated Rates and Earlier Onset of Nonpulmonary Comorbidities in Adults with Cystic Fibrosis: A Population-based Study

2025· article· en· W4412700517 on OpenAlexafffundabout
Rigya Arya, Isobel Sharpe, Stephanie Y. Cheng, Jenna Sykes, Xiayi Ma, Sanja Stanojevic, Paula A. Rochon, Ping Li, BS Quon, Michael Ordon, Anne L. Stephenson

Bibliographic record

VenueAnnals of the American Thoracic Society · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicCystic Fibrosis Research Advances
Canadian institutionsUniversity of British ColumbiaCystic Fibrosis CanadaWomen's College HospitalUniversity of TorontoDalhousie UniversityInstitute for Clinical Evaluative SciencesSt. Michael's Hospital
FundersCanadian Institutes of Health ResearchCystic Fibrosis Canada
KeywordsMedicineCystic fibrosisPopulationComorbidityInternal medicineIdiopathic pulmonary fibrosisPediatricsLungEnvironmental health

Abstract

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Abstract Rationale People with cystic fibrosis (pwCF) are living longer with increasing comorbidities. Objectives To estimate the rate of emerging nonpulmonary comorbidities in adults with cystic fibrosis (CF) and to compare these rates with the non-CF population. Methods This is a population-based cohort study of adults using Canadian Cystic Fibrosis Registry data linked with health administrative databases in Ontario. Cases of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and symptomatic kidney stones were identified using diagnostic and procedural codes. Chronic kidney disease (CKD) was defined as estimated glomerular filtration rate <60 ml/min/1.73 m2. Cancer cases were obtained using the Ontario Cancer Registry. Poisson regression was used to estimate the rates per 1,000 person-years of follow-up. Results The age- and sex-adjusted rates of CVD, CKD, kidney stones, and cancer per 1,000 person-years in the non–lung transplantation cohort were 24.5 (95% confidence interval [CI], 21.5–28.0), 3.7 (95% CI, 2.7–5.2), 7.4 (95% CI, 6.1–9.0), and 5.8 (95% CI, 4.5–7.6) respectively. pwCF who underwent lung transplantation had higher rates of all four conditions, and cancer and CKD occurred earlier compared with the nontransplantation cohort. When comparing the CF and non-CF populations, pwCF without lung transplantation had higher age- and sex-adjusted rates of CVD (relative risk [RR], 2.9 [95% CI, 2.6–3.4]), CKD (RR, 2.1 [95% CI, 1.5–2.9]), kidney stones (RR, 2.9 [95% CI, 2.4–3.6]), and cancer (RR, 1.9 [95% CI, 1.5–2.5]). These events occurred at a median age of at least 20 years earlier in the CF cohort. In the post-transplantation population, there were no significant differences in the rates of CVD, kidney stones, and cancers between pwCF and the non-CF population, but events occurred earlier in pwCF. Conclusions Nonpulmonary complications occur at a high rate and at a younger age in pwCF compared with the non-CF population, which highlights the importance of incorporating these issues in CF care models.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.177
Threshold uncertainty score0.352

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.001
Bibliometrics0.0010.002
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0010.001
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.033
GPT teacher head0.388
Teacher spread0.355 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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".

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