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

• Main Authors: Toru Sasaki (Author), Hyogo Horiguchi (Author), Akira Arakawa (Author), Etsuko Oguma (Author), Atsushi Komatsuda (Author), Kenichi Sawada (Author), Katsuyuki Murata (Author), Kazuhito Yokoyama (Author), Takehisa Matsukawa (Author), Momoko Chiba (Author), Yuki Omori (Author), Norihiro Kamikomaki (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Komiyama Printing Co. Ltd, 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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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...