Abstract
1Professor, Division of Renal Medicine, Department of Clinical Sciences, Intervention and Technology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm and Department of Evidence based Medicine, Stockholm County Council, Sweden 2Associate Professor, Division of Renal Medicine, Department of Clinical Sciences, Intervention and Technology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden 3Division of Renal Medicine, Department of Clinical Sciences, Intervention and Technology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden Received date: 30 June 2015; Accepted date: 21 August 2015; Published date: 25 August 2015.
Highlights
Open AccessMesoamerican Nephropathy (MeN): A ‘New’ Chronic Kidney Disease related to Occupational Heat Exposure with Repeated Deprivation of Salts and Water
In the early 2000 awareness among people and health workers in the Mesoamerica’s slowly emerged that a chronic kidney disease (CKD) was prevalent among poor male sugarcane workers
At the first international scientific meeting in Costa Rica in late 2012 on this ‘new’ kidney disease it was recognized that a very similar type of chronic disease probably occurred among agricultural workers in other hot countries, in particular Sri Lanka, and it was decided to omit the word ‘endemic’ and to call this disease Mesoamerican Nephropathy (MeN) based on the area where this new type of CKD was first characterized [4,5,6]
Summary
Mesoamerican Nephropathy (MeN): A ‘New’ Chronic Kidney Disease related to Occupational Heat Exposure with Repeated Deprivation of Salts and Water.
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