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Surface water quality and chronic kidney disease burden in China, Canada, and Ireland: an exploratory ecological panel study

Paper C Peer reviewed Observational

Key takeaways

This study compared river and lake water quality with how common chronic kidney disease is in China, Canada, and Ireland over time. It looked at whole populations, not individual people, and the authors call it exploratory. It can show a link at the population level, not proof that water quality causes kidney disease. No abstract was available, so we could not check the results.

Who did this work

Tian Ruan (Kunming Medical University) · Ziyue Zhang (Kunming Medical University)

Source

Paper · OpenAlex, CKD works · 2026-09-14
https://doi.org/10.37349/emed.2026.1001428