Associations of the combined C-reactive protein-triglyceride glucose index and frailty index in different dimensions with incident stroke among individuals with stages 0–3 cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic syndrome
Honglin Zheng, Yao Zhang, Li Li, Mingye Zhu, Wei Kong, Jialin Wang, Ruxi Liu, Fang Wang · 2026
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Honglin Zheng and colleagues linked two body measures to stroke risk in 2026, using five rounds of a long-running Chinese health survey. Their paper joins an inflammation and blood-sugar index with a frailty index. It then tracks how the combined score at one visit, over time, and as a changing pattern relates to later strokes in people with early heart, kidney, and metabolic disease.
Among 5293 people followed for nearly nine years, 540 strokes occurred, and each one-point rise in the baseline combined score came with about 61 percent higher stroke risk. The paper gives clinicians a combined early-warning signal to test, while noting that prediction still needs checking in other groups before routine use.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Honglin Zheng, Yao Zhang, Li Li, Mingye Zhu, Wei Kong, Jialin Wang, Ruxi Liu, Fang Wang |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 52 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |