Pesticide exposures and chronic kidney disease of unknown etiology: an epidemiologic review

Environmental Health: A Global Access Science Source

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Valcke, Mathieu ^a,b   Levasseur, Marie Eve ^a   Soares Da Silva, Agnes ^c   Wesseling, Catharina ^d  

^a LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c PAN AMERICAN HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (United States)

^d KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Agrochemicals; Chronic kidney disease of unknown etiology (CKDu); Etiology; Exposure; Pesticides; Review

Indexed keywords

PESTICIDE; POLLUTANT;

AGROCHEMICAL; DIABETES; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETIOLOGY; HYPERTENSION; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PESTICIDE RESIDUE; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; RISK FACTOR;

CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEHYDRATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; EPIDEMIC; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; HEAT STRESS; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; INDIA; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SELECTION BIAS; SRI LANKA; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; UNITED STATES; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; POLLUTANT; RENAL INSUFFICIENCY, CHRONIC;

CENTRAL AMERICA; INDIA; SRI LANKA; UNITED STATES;

ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; HUMANS; PESTICIDES; RENAL INSUFFICIENCY, CHRONIC; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 85019924142     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1476069X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12940-017-0254-0     Document Type: Review

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