Well Water Characteristics and the Balkan Nephropathy

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A total of 366 inhabitants of a village affected by Balkan nephropathy (BN) have been followed over 12 years. It was shown that depth of the well to the water level, height of the water column, electroconductivity, and NO<sub>3 </sub>content of he water were not associated with BN. The risk of developing the disease was significantly higher if a well was at a lower altitude and contained a higher concentration of SiO<sub>2</sub>. Low altitude might have been expected to correlate with the BN frequency; as for silica, however, there are sound indications that it could just be a correlate of a cause rather than a direct determinant of BN.

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Journal ID (publisher-id): NEF

Journal ID (nlm-ta): Nephron

Journal ID (doi): 10.1159/issn.1660-8151

Title: Nephron

Publisher: S. Karger AG

ISSN (Print): 1660-8151

ISSN (Electronic): 2235-3186

Publication date Subscription-year: 1991

Publication date (Print): 1991

Publication date (Electronic): 11 December 2008

Volume: 57

Issue: 1

Pages: 52-54

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Institutes of ^aEpidemiology and ^bSocial Medicine and Statistics, Faculty of Medicine, Belgrade, Yugoslavia

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Publisher ID: 186215 Other ID: Nephron 1991;57:52–54

DOI: 10.1159/000186215

PubMed ID: 1646406

SO-VID: 284a6797-a434-4494-8148-317e40daabda

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Date accepted : 16 March 1990

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