Air pollution damages millions of kidneys every year

According to a recent analysis, the number of cases of chronic kidney disease (CKD) due to global air pollution is significant.

Benjamin Bowe of VA Saint Louis Health Care System and his colleagues have previously described a link between increased airborne toxic dust and the risk of CKD.

In their latest study, researchers used global disease research methods to estimate the burden of CKD caused by global air pollution.

Specifically, the number of people with CKD related to airborne dust particles is about 10.7 million cases a year.

The burdens of CKD disease caused by air pollution include years of living with disability (meaning years of living with kidney disease in pollution conditions), losing survival (meaning death Renal disease due to kidney disease) shows that the burden of this disease varies geographically, and is higher in Central America and South Asia.

" Air pollution can at least explain in part the increase in the incidence of CKD in many geographies around the world, and the increase in Mesoamerican kidney disease in Mexico and Central America ," Bowe to speak.

This study is presented at the 2017 International Health Week at Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans, LA.