Publications by authors named "Magaly Smith-Gonzalez"
Introduction: Pediatric urinary lithiasis (urolithiasis) is an important health issue linked to urinary metabolic disorders. In the United States alone, annual costs associated with urolithiasis are $229 million for hospital admissions and $146 million for emergency care.
Objective: Identify urinary metabolic disorders in Cuban pediatric patients with urolithiasis and better understand the relationship of age, demographic and anthropometric variables to urinary metabolic disorders strongly associated with urolithiasis.
In El Salvador, chronic kidney disease had reached epidemic propor-tions towards the end of this century's first decade. In 2011-2012, the Ministry of Health reported it was the leading cause of hospital deaths in men, the fifth in women, and the third overall in adult hospital fa-talities. Farming was the most common occupation among men in dialysis (50.
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- - In El Salvador, a chronic kidney disease (CKD) known as CKDnt is significantly impacting farmers, becoming epidemic and causing tens of thousands of deaths, with studies identifying its prevalence and possible causes.
- - Research involving over 7,000 participants found that CKD rates among adults in agricultural communities were as high as 18%, with 51.9% of cases being CKDnt, and noted high levels of kidney damage markers in those affected.
- - The potential causes of CKDnt appear to be complex, potentially linked to factors like exposure to agrochemicals, heat stress, and dehydration, leading to a diagnosis of chronic tubulointerstitial nephropathy in biopsies.
Introduction: A chronic kidney disease of non-traditional causes (CKDu) has emerged in Central America and elsewhere, predominantly affecting male farmworkers. In El Salvador (2009), it was the second cause of death in men > 18 years old. Causality has not been determined.
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