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CKD stages were defined using estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) thresholds based on KDIGO guidelines.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Study Design:<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>The final analytic cohort included 527 patients with at least 2 outpatient eGFR measurements prior to definitive treatment. We applied an expectation\u2013maximization (EM) algorithm to estimate discrete-time CKD stage transition matrices while accounting for irregular eGFR measurement intervals and unobserved intermediate transitions. Transition matrices were estimated under 3- and 6-mo cycle lengths overall as well as stratified by age and sex. The likelihood ratio statistic was used to compare EM-based estimates with the empirical counting estimator.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results:<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>The EM framework yielded clinically plausible transition structures dominated by self-transitions and progression primarily to adjacent CKD stages, with reduced spurious backward transitions relative to the empirical estimator. Transition patterns were consistent across 3- and 6-mo cycle lengths. Age-stratified analyses showed that older patients had slightly higher probabilities of progression to more advanced CKD stages compared with younger patients, whereas sex-stratified differences were minimal. 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