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Chronic kidney disease of non-traditional origin in Mesoamerica: a disease primarily driven by occupational heat stress

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 consensus on the etiology. Anecdotal evidence from the 1990s pointed to work in sugarcane; pesticides and heat stress were...

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Autores principales: Wesseling, Catharina, Glaser, Jason, Rodríguez-Guzmán, Julieta, Weiss, Ilana, Lucas, Rebekah, Peraza, Sandra, da Silva, Agnes Soares, Hansson, Erik, Johnson, Richard J., Hogstedt, Christer, Wegman, David H., Jakobsson, Kristina
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Organización Panamericana de la Salud 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6984407/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31998376
http://dx.doi.org/10.26633/RPSP.2020.15