ArticleCureus2024
Examining Self-Reported Physical Activity Levels Among Kidney Disease Patients in the United States Using the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) Database: A Retrospective Study.
Article in Cureus, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
0 citing papers in PubMed.
No citing paper in PubMed yet.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
6 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
introductionKidney diseases have a gradual and subtle onset, which usually results in end-stage renal disease with patients requiring renal replacement therapy. Though pharmacotherapy plays a crucial role, integrating lifestyle modifications like increased physical exercise has been associated with significant improvement in health for kidney disease patients.
aimsThis study aims to retrospectively analyze the prevalence of self-reported physical activity among patients of kidney disease in the United States, based on demographic, socioeconomic, and healthcare access variables for the year 2021. METHODOLOGY: Data was extracted from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System Web Enabled Analysis Tool (BRFSS WEAT) for the year 2021. Descriptive data, including numbers and percentages, was generated for each variable using cross-tabulations in the BRFSS WEAT. The data was stored in Microsoft Excel (Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA, USA), and statistical analysis was conducted using R version 4.3.1 (R Foundation for Statistical Computing, Vienna, Austria, https://www.R-project.org/). Statistical tests employed included the Chi-square test and Fisher's exact test to ensure robust and reliable results.
resultsA total of 436,057 people participated in the BRFSS study. Out of this, 17,054 (39%) self-identified to the question "ever told you had kidney disease." In the past month, 10,004 (58.7%) participants having kidney disease were involved in physical activity, whereas 7,050 (41.3%) were not. Also, the level of physical activity among kidney disease participants was highest in ages 18-25 (75.5%), male gender (63.6%), White non-Hispanic race (59.4%), patients having advanced education (64.2%), employed (72.6%), high income (82.1%), and having routine checkup within the past one year (8,957, 58.3%).
conclusionKidney disease patients in the United States who self-reported physical activity were found to have statistical significance between various demographic, socioeconomic, and last routine checkup variables. Prospectively, interventions must be designed to increase physical activity among kidney disease patients with a focus on high-risk demographic groups like older adults, people with lower socioeconomic status, and people who don't get regular checkups.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.