TY - JOUR T1 - RE: epidemiology of chronic kidney disease of undetermined aetiology in Taiwanese farmers JF - Occupational and Environmental Medicine JO - Occup Environ Med SP - 143 LP - 143 DO - 10.1136/oemed-2021-108011 VL - 79 IS - 2 AU - Tomoyuki Kawada Y1 - 2022/02/01 UR - http://oem.bmj.com/content/79/2/143.abstract N2 - Chang and Yang investigated the possible risk factors of chronic kidney disease of undetermined aetiology (CKDu) in Taiwanese farmers with special reference to heat stress.1 The age-adjusted and sex-adjusted prevalence OR (95% CI) of farmers versus non-farmers for CKDu was 1.45 (1.10 to 1.90), and prevalence of dehydration in farmers was higher than that in non-farmers. They made an emphasis on thermal hazards for CKDu in farmers, and I present my queries about the study.First, there is no difference in … ER -