Prevalence and varieties of complementary and alternative medicine usage among individuals with pre-dialysis chronic kidney disease in Taiwan: an investigative cross-sectional analysis

Table 2 CAM use among different groups of patients with pre-dialysis

Groups of CKD patients	Total (%) n = 275	CAM user (%) n = 128	Non-CAM user (%) n = 147	p-value^a
Stage 3b	129 (47)	67 (52)	62 (42)	0.156
Stage 4	95 (35)	37 (29)	58 (39)
Stage 5	51 (19)	24 (19)	27 (18)

Abbreviations: CAM complementary and alternative medicine, CKD chronic kidney disease
^aChi-squared test

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