An island of widows: the human face of Mesoamerican endemic nephropathy.

Kidney Int

Department of Medical Education, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, USA.

Published: August 2014

The authors are second-year medical students who spent the previous summer at a nongovernmental organization in Nicaragua. As interns on the public health team, they evaluated barriers to peritoneal dialysis in an agricultural community experiencing an epidemic of chronic kidney disease and end-stage renal disease.

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