Toxic Occupational Exposures and Membranous Nephropathy.

ABSTRACT:

Background and objectives

Membranous nephropathy is a rare autoimmune kidney disease whose increasing prevalence in industrialized countries pleads for the involvement of an environmental factor in the development of the disease. In addition, the predominance of men in membranous nephropathy, classically attributed to biologic or genetic differences between men and women, could also be due to different occupational exposures. To support this hypothesis, we sought to describe the toxic occupational exposures of patients with membranous nephropathy.

Design, setting, participants, & measurements

In this observational epidemiologic study, we compared the occupations and toxic occupational exposures of 100 patients with membranous nephropathy with those of the general population,

SUBMITTER: Cremoni M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9718038 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature