Chronic Kidney Disease Is Poised To Become The Black Lung of Climate Change

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Chronic Kidney Disease Is Poised To Become The Black Lung of Climate Change
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Chronic Kidney Disease could be the first climate-change related occupational disease

and Malaysia, brickmakers and coconut harvesters in India, and in farmworkers and miners from Egypt to Cameroon—essentially anywhere in the tropical and equatorial latitudes that has the right combination of high heat, high humidity, and hard labor.

Epidemiologist and CKDnt specialist Jason Glaser has no doubt that it is happening in the United States as well, especially after a summer that saw conditions in much of the country echo those of its neighbors to the south. “Absolutely everywhere we’ve looked that has that Venn Diagram of heavy work and high heat with poor labor protections, lo and behold, there it is.

. “It’s so easy to prevent,” he says, yet with dialysis or kidney donation your only options, “so expensive to treat.”The more typical form of kidney disease is either genetic or a consequence of diabetes, metabolic syndrome, or hypertension, and it largely affects an older population. CKDnt is closely tied to heat stress, and is more prevalent among outdoor laborers or miners who work in high heat conditions.

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