They analyzed global data and found that heat stress-related chronic kidney
disease appears to be on the rise in rural communities in hot regions.
The risk of heat stress-related chronic kidney disease has increased due to
global warming and an increase in extreme heat waves, and is highest for
certain groups of people, such as agricultural workers, according to the study
authors. The authors also noted that decreasing amounts of rain contribute to the
growing epidemic of heat stress nephropathy - or chronic kidney disease
consistent with heat stress - by reducing water supplies and quality as
temperatures rise.
The study findings will be published in an upcoming issue of the Clinical
Journal of the American Society of Nephrology.
"We were able to connect increased rates of chronic kidney disease in
different areas to an underlying mechanism - heat stress and dehydration - and
to climate," said study co-leader Dr. Richard Johnson, from the University
of Colorado School of Medicine.
"A new type of kidney disease, occurring throughout the world in hot
areas, is linked with temperature and climate, and may be one of the first
epidemics due to global warming," he said in a journal news release.■
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