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 4 Types of CAM used by different groups of pre-dialysis patients (n = 128)

Types of CAM	Total (%)^b	Groups of CKD patients, n (%)^b
Types of CAM	Total (%)^b	Stage 3b n = 67	Stage 4 n = 37	Stage 5 n = 24
Nutritional approaches	102 (79.7)	56 (83.6)	25 (67.6)	21 (87.5)
Psychological and physical approaches	14 (11)	10 (14.9)	4 (10.8)	0 (0)
Other complementary health approaches	34 (26.6)	15 (22.4)	14 (37.8)	5 (20.8)

Abbreviations: CAM complementary and alternative medicine
^bThe total value may be greater than the number of patients, as some could have used more than one type of CAM

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