Ana C. Ricardo|Lynn N Pereira|Aisha Betoko|Vivien Goh|Amatur Amarah|Bradley A. Warady|Marva Moxey?Mims|Susan L. Furth|James P. Lash
Parental health literacy and progression of chronic kidney disease in children
University of Illinois at Chicago|Johns Hopkins University|Johns Hopkins University|University of Illinois at Chicago|University of Illinois at Chicago|Children's Mercy Hospital|National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases|National Institutes of Health|Children's Hospital of Philadelphia|University of Illinois at Chicago
limited health literacy associated adverse outcomes children evaluated association setting chronic kidney disease ckdwe assessed parental health literacy 367 children enrolled chronic kidney disease children ckid study using short test functional health literacy stofhla evaluated association parental health literacy ckd progression defined time composite event renal replacement therapy rrt dialysis kidney transplant 50 decline estimated glomerular filtration rate egfrmedian ckid participant age 95 years 63 male 59 nonhispanic white median egfr baseline 63 mlmin173 m2 median urine proteintocreatinine ratio 022 median stofhla score 98 median followup 37 years overall ckd progression rate 28 per 100 personyears adjustment demographic clinical factors relative time ckd progression 28 longer per 1 sd increase stofhla score relative time 95 ci 128 106153in cohort children ckd higher parental health literacy associated nearly 30 longer time composite ckd progression outcome