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Effect of Ambient Temperature on Kidney Function.

Key takeaways

This review looks at how extreme heat, especially hard work in hot places, harms the kidneys. The authors say heat is a major cause of kidney problems in lower-income regions. It raises the risk of kidney stones, sudden kidney injury (acute kidney injury, or AKI), and a type of long-term kidney disease with no known cause (CKDu). This is a summary of past research, not a new study, so it has no new results.

Who did this work

Mondal K · Mukhopadhyay P · Ganguli A

Source

Article · PubMed, Climate, heat and the kidney · 2026 Sep 16
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42748031/