In Sri Lanka, new steps target mysterious kidney diseaseIn Sri Lanka, the president vows controls on chemicals potentially linked to chronic kidney disease, as hospitals take steps for patients.Center for Public Integrity
Sri Lanka and China last year launched the construction of a state-of-the-art water testing laboratory at the Peradeniya University, in the central highlands of the island country to find a scientific solution to end chronic kidney disease of unknown origin (CKDu). Construction of this laborator...
The cause of her disease, which affects an estimated 70,000 to 400,000 people in Sri Lanka's rice basket, has baffled doctors and researchers for two decades. Even the World Health Organization hasn't been able to pinpoint what's killing as many as 10 people a month in Karunawathie's...
It is unclear if heat stress and dehydration are risk factors for this form of chronic kidney disease (CKDu). To investigate this relationship, agricultural workers in four villages (n = 261) in North Central Province, Sri Lanka completed the US National Institute for ...
Large groundwater wells such as this are commonplace in rural Sri Lanka. Tests from Duke University found a strong correlation between high local levels of chronic kidney disease and the presence of glyphosate in well water. Credit: Jake Ulrich ...
In a recent study published by the National Project Team on chronic kidney diseases of unknown origin in Sri Lanka, identified cadmium as a major risk factor but strong conclusions were not made as the identified environmental toxins were within the permissible levels. Sri Lankan food consumption ...
Globally, chronic kidney disease of unknown aetiology (CKDu) is observed in several areas and among specific ethnic or occupational groups. Given the widespread environmental pollution and the proportions of agriculture workers world-wide, CKDu may be the next global public health issue demanding atte...
since families in rural Sri Lanka are largely mother-centred. The finding that people engaged inchenacultivation have a greater risk of getting the disease implies that the disease has hit the indigent populations in the agricultural sector in the remote dry zones. The most conclusive and revealing...
Geographical distribution of the chronic kidney disease of unknown origin in sri lanka: in the region of irrigation reservoirsJayasekara JMKBDissanayake DMJayasekara, J.M.K.B., Dissanayake, D.M., Adhikari, S.B., Bandara, P., 2013. Geographical dis- tribution of chroni...
The cause of her disease, which affects an estimated 70,000 to 400,000 people in Sri Lanka's rice basket, has baffled doctors and researchers for two decades. Even the World Health Organization hasn't been able to pinpoint what's killing as many as 10 people a month in Karunawathie's...