Hospital-based screening to detect patients with cadmium nephropathy in cadmium-polluted areas in Japan

Hospital-based screening to detect patients with cadmium nephropathy in cadmium-polluted areas in Japan

Abstract Background In health examinations for local inhabitants in cadmium-polluted areas, only healthy people are investigated, suggesting that patients with severe cadmium nephropathy or itai-itai disease may be overlooked. Therefore, we performed hospital-based screening to detect patients with...

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Main Authors: Toru Sasaki, Hyogo Horiguchi, Akira Arakawa, Etsuko Oguma, Atsushi Komatsuda, Kenichi Sawada, Katsuyuki Murata, Kazuhito Yokoyama, Takehisa Matsukawa, Momoko Chiba, Yuki Omori, Norihiro Kamikomaki
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2019-01-01
Series:Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine
Subjects:
Cadmium
Nephropathy
Screening
Hospital
ß2-microglobulin
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12199-019-0762-3

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