SynthesisJournal of preventive medicine and public health = Yebang Uihakhoe chi2019
High Temperatures and Kidney Disease Morbidity: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.
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- An Umbrella Review of Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses on Occupational Heat Exposure, Health Risks, and Productivity Losses Globally.Current environmental health reports · 2026Pooled it
- Urban heat island impacts on heat-related cardiovascular morbidity: A time series analysis of older adults in US metropolitan areas.Environment international · 2023Pooled it
- Knowledge Gaps and Research Priorities on the Health Effects of Heatwaves: A Systematic Review of Reviews.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Pooled it
- Global Associations of Air Pollution and Conjunctivitis Diseases: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Pooled it
- Cause-specific heat-related mortality in Rio de Janeiro city: Comparing exposure metrics and the role of exposure duration.Environmental epidemiology (Philadelphia, Pa.) · 2026Article
- Heat-related acute kidney injury risk in England: a nationwide case-crossover analysis of 947 342 AKI alerts.Clinical kidney journal · 2026Article
- Ambient temperature and the variability between neighbouring days impacts in-patient hospitalizations in the United Kingdom.Communications medicine · 2026Article
- Heat Exposure and the Risk of Emergency Hospitalization in Germany: Stratified Analyses by Age, Sex, and Diagnostic Group.Deutsches Arzteblatt international · 2025Observational
- Climate effect on the incidence of kidney failure patients in Australia.BMC medicine · 2025Article
- Contemporary kidney stone analysis composition among U.S. adults and children in a large reference laboratory setting.International urology and nephrology · 2025Article
- Heat Stress and Determinants of Kidney Health Among Agricultural Workers in the United States: An Integrative Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Review
- Estimating the Association Between Outdoor Temperature and Acute Kidney Injury Using Alternative Case Definitions.Journal of occupational and environmental medicine · 2025Article
- Case-crossover assessment of the modifying effects of home medication use on acute kidney-related morbidity due to elevated ambient heat exposure in Atlanta, GA, from 2013 to 2019.BMJ public health · 2025Article
- Approach to heat-related illness.Canadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien · 2024Review
- [Pathophysiology and management of heat illness].Medizinische Klinik, Intensivmedizin und Notfallmedizin · 2024Review
- High ambient temperature impact on the pattern of emergency-room visits due to renal colic in the Middle East.Urolithiasis · 2024Article
- Molecular Challenges and Opportunities in Climate Change-Induced Kidney Diseases.Biomolecules · 2024Review
- Long-term exposure to high perceived temperature and risk of mortality among patients with chronic kidney disease.Heliyon · 2024Article
- Associations between short-term exposure to ambient temperature and renal disease mortality in Japan during 1979-2019: A time-stratified case-crossover analysis.Environmental epidemiology (Philadelphia, Pa.) · 2024Article
- Methodological and reporting quality of systematic reviews on health effects of air pollutants were higher than extreme temperatures: a comparative study.BMC public health · 2023Article
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Abstract
objectivesIn recent years, serious concerns have been raised regarding the impacts of rising temperatures on health. The present study was conducted to investigate the relationship between elevated temperatures and kidney disease through a systematic review and meta-analysis.
methodsIn October 2017, 2 researchers independently searched related studies in PubMed and Embase. A meta-analysis was conducted using a random-effects model, including only studies that presented odds ratios, relative risks, or percentage changes, along with 95% confidence intervals (CIs). The characteristics of each study were summarized, and the Egger test and funnel plots were used to evaluate publication bias.
resultsEleven studies that met the criteria were included in the final analysis. The pooled results suggest an increase of 30% (95% CI, 20 to 40) in kidney disease morbidity with high temperatures. In a disease-specific subgroup analysis, statistically significant results were observed for both renal colic or kidney stones and other renal diseases. In a study design-specific subgroup analysis, statistically significant results were observed in both time-series analyses and studies with other designs. In a temperature measure-specific subgroup analysis, significant results were likewise found for both studies using mean temperature measurements and studies measuring heat waves or heat stress.
conclusionsOur results indicate that morbidity due to kidney disease increases at high temperatures. We also found significant results in subgroup analyses. However, further time-series analyses are needed to obtain more generalizable evidence.
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