“Costa Rican decree targets chronic kidney disease of non-traditional causes prevention”, 6 Aug 2015

The Costa Rican government ordered regulations via presidential decree last week to protect workers from heat stress and dehydration with the specific aim of preventing Chronic Kidney Disease of non-traditional causes (CKDnT)…If implemented properly, the measures could protect thousands of cane cutters from the fatal CKDnT epidemic, which is estimated to have killed 20,000 people in the region over the last decade…Costa Rica is the first national government to identify heat stress and dehydration as primary drivers of CKDnT onset…