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

In conclusion, work is the main driver of the CKDnt epidemic in Mesoamerica, with occupational heat stress being the single uniting factor shown to lead to kidney dysfunction in affected populations. Sugarcane cutters with extreme heat stress could be viewed as a sentinel occupational population. Occupational heat stress prevention is critical, even more so in view of climate change. PMID: 31998376 [PubMed]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31998376?dopt=Abstract

Source: Pan American Journal of Public Health - February 1, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Rev Panam Salud Publica Source Type: research