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Is Chronic Kidney Disease due to Cadmium Exposure Inevitable and Can it be Reversed?
2024-02-12
Abstract excerpt
Cadmium (Cd) is a metal with no nutritional or physiological value, but is found in most people because it is a contaminant in nearly all food types. The intestinal absorption rate determines the body burden of Cd because humans lack a physiologic mechanism for excretion of the metal. Most acquired Cd accumulates in the kidneys, in which the Cd content increases through age 50 but falls thereafter. The decline fro...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 355c42a5-9b04-56d1-9d88-9f39b9a40c11
- DOI
- 10.20944/preprints202402.0686.v1