Intervention to diminish dehydration and kidney damage among sugarcane workers

Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment and Health

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2018, Pages 16-24

  Wegman, David H ^a   Apelqvist, Jenny ^b   Bottai, Matteo ^c   Ekström, Ulf ^b   García Trabanino, Ramón ^d,e   Glaser, Jason ^f   Hogstedt, Christer ^c   Jakobsson, Kristina ^b,g,h   Jarquín, Emmanuel ⁱ   Lucas, Rebekah A I ^j   Weiss, Ilana ^f   Wesseling, Catharina ^c   Bodin, Theo ^c   Abrahamson, M ^k   Aragon A ^k   Arias, E ^k   Faber, D ^k   Peraza, S ^k   Rojas, M ^k  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS LOWELL   (United States)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^d Centro de Hemodialisis   (El Salvador)

^e Fondo Social de Emergencia para la Salud de Tierra Blanca   (El Salvador)

^f International   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^h SAHLGRENSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

ⁱ Agencia Para El Desarrollo y la Salud Agropecuaria   (El Salvador)

^j UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^k NONE

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Author keywords

Chronic; Chronic kidney disease; CKD; El Salvador; Epidemiology; Heat; Heat exposure; Heat stress; Mesoamerican nephropathy

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; ANATOMY; BIOMARKER; BLOOD; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DEHYDRATION; DISEASE INCIDENCE; HEALTH WORKER; HEATING; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PROTEIN; PUBLIC HEALTH; RESERVOIR; SERUM; URINE;

EL SALVADOR [CENTRAL AMERICA]; MESOAMERICA; UNITED STATES;

AGRICULTURAL CHEMICAL; ALBUMIN; CREATINE KINASE; GLUCOSE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; RECREATIONAL DRUG; WATER; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; DRINKING WATER;

ADULT; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CREATINE KINASE BLOOD LEVEL; DEHYDRATION; EL SALVADOR; ESTIMATED GLOMERULAR FILTRATION RATE; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HARVEST; HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT; HEAT STRESS; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; KIDNEY FUNCTION; KIDNEY INJURY; MALE; NEPHROLITHIASIS; OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REST; RISK FACTOR; SHADE; SUGARCANE; THERMAL EXPOSURE; URINE OSMOLALITY; WATER SUPPLY; WORKING TIME; BLOOD; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEAT; HEAT INJURY; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PROCEDURES; URINE;

ADULT; BIOMARKERS; DEHYDRATION; DRINKING WATER; FARMERS; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEAT STRESS DISORDERS; HOT TEMPERATURE; HUMANS; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RENAL INSUFFICIENCY, CHRONIC; REST; SACCHARUM;

EID: 85040083121     PISSN: 03553140     EISSN: 1795990X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5271/sjweh.3659     Document Type: Article

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