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Study attributes significant amount of kidney disease globally to PM2.5 pollution

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Populations in Mexico, Central America, Southeast Asia, India, and Northern Africa were amongst those with highest DALYs. For example, DALYs per 100,000 were 366.71 (251.05, 498.01) in Nicaragua and 353.93 (260.05-449.24) The estimate for the global annual burden of incident CKD attributable to elevated PM 2.5

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