http://kidneyfunction.org Renal Information Fri, 03 Sep 2010 05:00:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 http://kidneyfunction.org/decreased-kidney-function-of-unknown-cause-in-nicaragua-a-community-based-survey-corrected-proof/ http://kidneyfunction.org/decreased-kidney-function-of-unknown-cause-in-nicaragua-a-community-based-survey-corrected-proof/#comments Mon, 01 Feb 2010 08:00:00 +0000 Cecilia Torres, Aurora Aragón, Marvin González, Indiana López, Kristina Jakobsson, Carl-Gustaf Elinder, Ingvar Lundberg, Catharina Wesseling 10.1053/j.ajkd.2009.12.012 300 mg/dL) range.Results: Prevalences of abnormal SCr levels: 18% (of all men) and 5% (of all women); in the mining/subsistence farming village, 26% and 7%; banana/sugarcane, 22% and 6%; fishing, 13% and 4%; services, 0% and 1%; and coffee, 7% and 0%. Prevalences of estimated glomerular filtration rate <60 mL/min/1.73 m2: 14% (of all men) and 3% (of all women); in the listed villages, 19% and 5%, 17% and 4%, 10% and 2%, 0% and 0%, and 7% and 0%, respectively. Proteinuria, predominantly in the low range, affected 14% and 11% of all men and women without marked differences between villages. By occupation, abnormal SCr levels occurred in 31% and 24% of male and female agricultural workers at 100-300 m above sea level, but not at higher altitudes, and also was high in male artisans (43%), construction workers (15%), and miners (14%). In logistic regression models, for the banana/sugarcane and mining/subsistence farming villages, high blood pressure and age were significant predictors of abnormal SCr levels in men, and for mining/subsistence farming, age in women.Limitations: Causality is not addressed.Conclusions: In some Nicaraguan villages and population segments, men in particular show a high prevalence of decreased kidney function of unknown origin, possibly environmental or occupational.]]> http://kidneyfunction.org/decreased-kidney-function-of-unknown-cause-in-nicaragua-a-community-based-survey-corrected-proof/feed/ 0