Chronic Kidney Disease in Agricultural Communities Numerous cases of chronic kidney
disease of unknown cause have emerged among agricultural workers and other manual …

Chlorpyrifos (CP) and its highly electrophilic intermediates are principal toxic metabolites.
The active form of CP ie chlorpyrifos oxon (CP-oxon) is responsible for both the insecticidal …

Ambient air pollution has been identified as one of the leading causes of global burden of
disease. The relationship between ambient air pollution exposure and risk of chronic kidney …

The death toll of the epidemic of chronic kidney disease of nontraditional origin (CKDnt) in
Mesoamerica runs into the tens of thousands, affecting mostly young men. There is no …

Farmers are routinely exposed to various types of agrochemicals, but there is no evidence
about adverse effects posed by these chemicals on human health. Studies from all over the …

High-technology medicine saves lives and produces waste; this is the case of dialysis. The
increasing amounts of waste products can be biologically dangerous in different ways: some …

Neonicotinoids are systemic insecticides used since the 1990's, that possess renal tubular
toxicity. We conducted a field-based descriptive study in the North Central Dry-zone of Sri …

Objetivos. Describir la tendencia de mortalidad por enfermedad renal crónica (ERC) en el
Perú en el periodo 2003-2015. Materiales y Métodos. Análisis de datos secundarios y de …

An epidemic of chronic kidney disease (CKD) is occurring in laborers who undertake
physical work in hot conditions. Rodent data indicate that heat exposure causes kidney …

The beginning of the 21st century has seen the emergence of a new chronic tubulo-
interstitial kidney disease of uncertain cause among agricultural communities in Central …