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Retraction and Replacement Notice: Ekwunife O et al. on Social Risk Factors and Disparities in Advanced Cardiovascular-Kidney-Metabolic Syndrome

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  • Leonard E. Egede

  • October 8, 2026

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    A coding error applied 0.2 instead of 20 to PREVENT risk values on a 0% to 100% scale, overclassifying CKM stage 3 and advanced CKM syndrome.

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    A second coding error classified CKM stage 0 when either BMI or waist circumference was normal, although both measures were required.

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    After correcting both definitions and excluding 34 participants without CKM stage data, the cohort included 28,184 participants, with 5,879 classified as having advanced CKM syndrome.

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    Corrected advanced CKM prevalence was 15.8% survey weighted, representing 26,132,788 US adults among a survey-weighted total of 165,637,840.

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    The corrected analysis retained the principal interpretation of associations with social risk factors, while 45 findings changed statistical significance classification: 28 became significant and 17 d

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