Additional perspectives on chronic kidney disease of unknown aetiology (CKDu) in Sri Lanka - Lessons learned from the WHO CKDu population prevalence study

BMC Nephrology

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Redmon, Jennifer Hoponick ^a   Elledge, Myles F ^a   Womack, Donna S ^a   Wickremashinghe, Rajitha ^c   Wanigasuriya, Kamani P ^d   Peiris John, Roshini J ^e   Lunyera, Joseph ^b   Smith, Kristin ^a   Raymer, James H ^a   Levine, Keith E ^a  

^a RTI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KELANIYA   (Sri Lanka)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SRI JAYEWARDENEPURA   (Sri Lanka)

^e UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Agrochemicals; Cadmium; Chronic kidney disease; Chronic kidney disease of unknown aetiology; Environmental nephrotoxins; Heavy metals; Sri Lanka

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL CHEMICAL; ARSENIC; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CADMIUM; CREATININE; DRINKING WATER; GROUND WATER; LEAD; NEUTROPHIL GELATINASE ASSOCIATED LIPOCALIN; ORGANOCHLORINE PESTICIDE; PESTICIDE RESIDUE; PHOSPHATE FERTILIZER; SELENIUM; HEAVY METAL;

ALBUMIN TO CREATININE RATIO; ARTICLE; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE OF UNKNOWN ETIOLOGY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; CULTIVAR; DOCUMENTATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FOOD; FOOD CHAIN; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GEOCHEMISTRY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HUMAN; KIDNEY BIOPSY; LIMIT OF DETECTION; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MEDICAL HISTORY; OXIDATION REDUCTION POTENTIAL; PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANT; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREVALENCE; PROTEINURIA; RENAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS; RISK FACTOR; SELENIUM DEFICIENCY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOIL; SRI LANKA; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; URINALYSIS; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; INTOXICATION; MALE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; METALS, HEAVY; POISONING;

EID: 84904769891     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712369     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2369-15-125     Document Type: Article

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