Chronic kidney disease of uncertain aetiology: adding vital piece of information to the national project team report of Sri Lanka

In a recent study published by the National Project Team on chronic kidney diseases of unknown origin in Sri Lanka, identified cadmium as a major risk factor but strong conclusions were not made as the identified environmental toxins were within the permissible levels. Sri Lankan food consumption pa...

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Autor principal: Jayalal, T. B. Ananda
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4690375/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26701260
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12882-015-0211-5
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description In a recent study published by the National Project Team on chronic kidney diseases of unknown origin in Sri Lanka, identified cadmium as a major risk factor but strong conclusions were not made as the identified environmental toxins were within the permissible levels. Sri Lankan food consumption pattern is different so that approach of total exposure of cadmium by food and water been calculated. Such calculation point out that total exposure of cadmium exceed the provisional tolerable weekly intake determined by international agencies.
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spelling pubmed-46903752015-12-25 Chronic kidney disease of uncertain aetiology: adding vital piece of information to the national project team report of Sri Lanka Jayalal, T. B. Ananda BMC Nephrol Correspondence In a recent study published by the National Project Team on chronic kidney diseases of unknown origin in Sri Lanka, identified cadmium as a major risk factor but strong conclusions were not made as the identified environmental toxins were within the permissible levels. Sri Lankan food consumption pattern is different so that approach of total exposure of cadmium by food and water been calculated. Such calculation point out that total exposure of cadmium exceed the provisional tolerable weekly intake determined by international agencies. BioMed Central 2015-12-23 /pmc/articles/PMC4690375/ /pubmed/26701260 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12882-015-0211-5 Text en © Jayalal. 2015 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Chronic kidney disease of uncertain aetiology: adding vital piece of information to the national project team report of Sri Lanka
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title_full Chronic kidney disease of uncertain aetiology: adding vital piece of information to the national project team report of Sri Lanka
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title_full_unstemmed Chronic kidney disease of uncertain aetiology: adding vital piece of information to the national project team report of Sri Lanka
title_short Chronic kidney disease of uncertain aetiology: adding vital piece of information to the national project team report of Sri Lanka
title_sort chronic kidney disease of uncertain aetiology: adding vital piece of information to the national project team report of sri lanka
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4690375/
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