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Prenatal Heat Wave Exposure and Renal Function in Early Childhood: Findings from a Chinese Birth Cohort.

Key takeaways

Researchers followed 1,278 mothers and their children in Fujian, China, to ask whether heat waves during pregnancy affect the child's kidney function in early childhood. They checked the children with standard blood tests of kidney function, including creatinine, a waste product the kidneys clear. This is an observational study, so it can show a link but cannot prove that the heat caused any difference, and the summary text available here stops before the numbers.

Who did this work

Zhu Y · Tang R · Ma Y · Chen N · Zhao X · Shao W · Tian Y · Miao C

Source

Article · PubMed, Climate, heat and the kidney · 2026 Sep 2
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42685890/