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

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Krinsky, Laura M. [1 ]
Levine, William J. [1 ]
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[1] Icahn Sch Med Mt Sinai, Dept Med Educ, New York, NY 10029 USA
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10.1038/ki.2014.133
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R5 [内科学]; R69 [泌尿科学(泌尿生殖系疾病)];
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1002 ; 100201 ;
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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. © 2014 International Society of Nephrology.
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