Hydrocarbons and non-neoplastic kidney diseases
Hotz, P.; Boillat, M.A.
Therapeutische Umschau. Revue Therapeutique 46(11): 801-808
1989
ISSN/ISBN: 0040-5930 PMID: 2688173 Document Number: 333116
Substituted and nonsubstituted hydrocarbons are suspected of causing nonneoplastic kidney diseases. Although the problem was already known about 100 years ago, epidemiological studies have only been conducted since 1975. This paper attempts to give an overview on the present situation, first of all on the cross-sectional and case-control studies. Practical recommendations for the prevention of such damage are done, but should be considered as preliminary until our knowledge has been completed by better designed epidemiological studies.