Intervention to diminish dehydration and kidney damage among sugarcane workers

• Published in: Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment ＆ Health Vol. 44; no. 1; pp. 16 - 24
• Main Authors: Wegman, David H, Apelqvist, Jenny, Bottai, Matteo, Ekström, Ulf, García-Trabanino, Ramón, Glaser, Jason, Hogstedt, Christer, Jakobsson, Kristina, Jarquín, Emmanuel, Lucas, Rebekah A I, Weiss, Ilana, Wesseling, Catharina, Bodin, Theo
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Finland Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment ＆ Health 01.01.2018; NOROSH Nordic Association of Occupational Safety and health; Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health; Nordic Association of Occupational Safety and Health (NOROSH)
• Subjects: agricultural-workers; Annan medicin och hälsovetenskap; Anthropometry; Arbetsmedicin och miljömedicin; Biomarkers; central-america; Chronic; Chronic kidney disease; CKD; Climate change; Confidence intervals; Damage assessment; Dehydration; disease; Efficiency; El Salvador; Environmental & Occupational Health; Environmental Health and Occupational Health; Epidemiology; Epidermal growth factor receptors; Farmworkers; Federal agencies; Glomerular filtration rate; Health Sciences; Heat; Heat exposure; Heat stress; Heat tolerance; Hälsovetenskap; induced renal injury; Intervention; kidney damage; Kidney diseases; Kidneys; Medical and Health Sciences; Medicin och hälsovetenskap; Mens health; Mesoamerican nephropathy; Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs; Occupational health; Occupational Health and Environmental Health; Occupational safety; Other Medical and Health Sciences; Public; rhabdomyolysis; risk; Rodents; Sea level; Serum albumin; Sugarcane; sugarcane worker; Urine; Working groups; Central America; El Salvador; United States > US; Costa Rica; heat; epidemiology; heat stress; chronic kidney disease; El Salvador; heat exposure; Mesoamerican nephropathy; chronic; CKD

Objective The aim of this study was to assess the potential to reduce kidney function damage during the implementation of a water, rest, shade (WRS) and efficiency intervention program among sugarcane workers. Methods A WRS intervention program adapted from the US Occupational Safety and Health Admi...