An epidemic of chronic kidney disease that has killed tens of thousands of agricultural workers worldwide, is just one of many ailments poised to strike as a result of climate change, according to researchers at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus.
An epidemic of chronic kidney disease that has killed tens of thousands of agricultural workers worldwide, is just one of many ailments poised to strike as a result of climate change, according to researchers at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus.
“Chronic kidney disease is a sentinel disease in the era of climate change,” said Cecilia Sorensen, MD, of the Colorado School of Public Health and the University of Colorado School of Medicine. “But we can learn from this epidemic and choose a wiser path forward.”
The article was published today in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Lead author Sorensen and her colleague, Ramon Garcia-Trabanino, MD, said chronic kidney disease of unknown origin or CKDu is now the second leading cause of death in Nicaragua and El Salvador. The death toll from the disease rose 83% in Guatemala over the past decade.
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