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In April 2013, a consortium of regional health ministries, nongovernmental organizations, aid agencies, clinical specialists and researchers from diverse sectors convened in San Salvador to discuss the epidemic of chronic kidney disease of unknown or non-traditional causes (CKDu) plaguing agricultural communities in Central America and beyond. The three-day meeting, where presentation of research on the clinical and epidemiological characteristics of CKDu roused significant debate, led the Pan American Health Organization to declare CKDu "a pressing and serious health problem [which] represents a burden for families, communities, health systems and society as a whole."

REFERENCES

1. Pan American Health Organization. Chronic kidney disease in agricultural communities in Central America, 152nd Session of the Executive Committee. Washington, DC: PAHO/WHO; 17–21 June 2013.

2. Orantes CM, Herrera R, Almaguer M, Brizuela EG, Hernández CE, Bayarre H, et al. Chronic Kidney Disease and Associated Risk Factors in the Bajo Lempa Region of El Salvador: Nefrolempa Study, 2009. MEDICC Rev. 2011 Oct;13(4):14–22.

3. The statement released following the meeting, known as the Declaration of San Salvador, defi nes the health problem as tubulo-interstitial kidney disease.

4. Athuraliya NT, Abeysekera TD, Amerasinghe PH, et al. Uncertain etiologies of proteinuric-chronic kidney disease in rural Sri Lanka. Kidney Int. 2011 Dec;80(11):1212–21.

5. See: Design and methodology of the Isle of Youth community-based epidemiological study of CKD, cardio-cerebral vascular disease, hypertension and diabetes mellitus (ISYS) in MEDICC Rev. 2007;9(1):23–30.