| Serial No. | Evidence | Download Link |
| 1. | Chronic interstitial nephritis in agricultural communities is a toxin-induced proximal tubular nephropathy – (Vervaet et al.,2020) |
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| 2. | Chronic interstitial nephritis in agricultural communities: a new perspective on etiology, diagnosis and mechanism
(Vervaet et al.,2021) |
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| 3. | Impact of changing agricultural practices on human health: chronic kidney disease of multi-factorial origin in Sri Lanka
(Wimalawansa and Wimalawansa, 2014) |
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| 4. | CKD of Unknown Etiology (CKDu) in Sri Lanka: A Multilevel Clinical Case Definition for Surveillance and Epidemiological Studies
(Wijewickrama et al.,2019) |
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| 5. | Chronic interstitial nephritis of agricultural communities: continuing with the term CKDu (chronic kidney disease of unknown cause) is detrimental
(Chula Herath,2020) |
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| 6. | The incidence, prevalence and trends of Chronic Kidney Disease and Chronic Kidney Disease of uncertain aetiology (CKDu) in the North Central Province of Sri Lanka: an analysis of 30,566 patients
(Ranasinghe et al.,2019) |
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| 7. | Chronic kidney disease of unknown etiology in Sri Lanka
(Rajapakse et al.,2016) |
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| 8. | Chronic interstitial nephritis in agricultural communities: a worldwide epidemic with social, occupational and environmental determinants
(Jayasumana et al.,2016) |
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| 9. | Escalating chronic kidney diseases of multi-factorial origin (CKD-mfo) in Sri Lanka: causes, solutions, and recommendations—update and responses
(Sunil J. Wimalawansa,2014) |
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| 10. | Prevalence of chronic kidney disease in Sri Lanka: A profile of affected districts reliant on groundwater
(Kafle et al.,2019) |
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| 11. | Uncertain etiologies of proteinuric-chronic kidney disease in rural Sri Lanka
(Athuraliya et al.,2011) |
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| 12. | Pesticide exposures and chronic kidney disease of unknown etiology: an epidemiologic review
(Valcke et al.,2017) |
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| 13. | Role of Organochlorine Pesticides in Chronic Kidney Diseases of Unknown Etiology
(Ghosh et al.,2018) |
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| 14. | The Environmental Audit report on the Pesticides Importing, Usage and its’ effect on Environment
Report No: PER/B/2019/02 NATIONAL AUDIT OFFICE ENVIRONMENTAL AUDIT DIVISION |
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| 15. | Special Audit Inspection on Irregularities Occurred in the Implementation of the National Fertilizer Subsidy Programme
National Audit Office |
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| 16. | Phosphate fertilizer is a main source of arsenic in areas affected with chronic kidney disease of unknown etiology in Sri Lanka
(Jayasumana et al.,2015) |
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| 17. | Associations between exposure to heavy metals and the risk of chronic kidney disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis
(Jalilia et al.,2021) |
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| 18. | Heavy Metal Contamination and Accumulation in Groundwater and Food Crops in Sri Lanka: A Review
(Priyashantha and Mahendranathan,2019) |
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| 19. | EXPOSURE TO ARSENIC: A MAJOR PUBLIC HEALTH CONCERN
Preventing Disease Through Healthy Environments 28 October 2019| Publication |
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| 20. | Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology of Hazardous Heavy Metals: Environmental Persistence, Toxicity, and Bioaccumulation
(Ali et al.,2019) |
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| 21. | Exposure of children to chemical hazards in food –
WHO Fact Sheet NO. 4.4 · MAY 2007 · CODE: RPG4_Food_Ex1 World Health Organization · Regional Office for Europe |
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| 22. | Arsenic and Cadmium Contamination in Water, Sediments and Fish is a Consequence of Paddy Cultivation: Evidence of River Pollution in Sri Lanka
(Perera et al.,2016)
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| 23. | Heavy Metal Toxicity and the Environment
(Tchounwou et al.,2012)
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| 24. | Cadmium Toxicity –
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry Case Studies in Environmental Medicine (CSEM) U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry – 2008 |
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| 25. | Scientific Facts on Arsenic
GreenFacts Digest. |
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| 26. | Arsenic in Drinking-water
Background document for development of WHO Guidelines for Drinking-water Quality |
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| 27. | Arsenic, Drinking-water and Health Risk Substitution in Arsenic Mitigation: a Discussion Paper
Guy Howard, 2003 |
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| 28. | Fluoride in drinking water and diet: the causative factor of chronic kidney diseases in the North Central Province of Sri Lanka
(Ranjith W. Dharmaratne, 2015) |
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| 29. | Groundwater fluoride as a geochemical marker in the etiology of chronic kidney disease of unknown origin in Sri Lanka
(Dissanayake and Chandrajith,2017) |
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| 30. | Serum and urine fluoride levels in populations of high environmental fluoride exposure with endemic CKDu: a case–control study from Sri Lanka
(Fernando et al.,2020) |
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| 31. | Influence of fluoride on chronic kidney disease of uncertain aetiology (CKDu) in Sri Lanka
(Nanayakkara et al.,2020) |
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| 32. | Cancer
WHO Fact Sheet,2021 |
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| 33. | List of classifications by cancer sites with sufficient or limited evidence in humans.
(IARC Monographs Volumes 1–129a) |
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| 34. | IARC MONOGRAPHS ON THE IDENTIFICATION OF CARCINOGENIC HAZARDS TO HUMANS
(IARC) |
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| 35. | Preventable Exposures Associated with Human Cancers
(Cogliano et al.,2010) |
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| 36. | Increased Cancer Burden Among Pesticide Applicators and Others Due to Pesticide Exposure
(Alavanja et al.,2013) |
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| 37. | Summary V1 on Agrochemicals and NCD CKDu Evidence Bank | Download |
| 38. | Presentation: Agrochemicals and Health | Download |
| 39. | Association of plasma and urine metals levels with kidney function: A population-based cross-sectional study in China
(Yang et al.,2019) |
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| 40. | The association between total urinary arsenic concentration and renal dysfunction in a community-based population from central Taiwan
(Chen et al.,2011) |
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| 41. | Associations between renal functions and exposure of arsenic and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon in adults living near a petrochemical complex
(Yuan et al.,2020) |
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| 42. | The association between plasma selenium and chronic kidney disease related to lead, cadmium and arsenic exposure in a Taiwanese population
(Wu et al.,2019) |
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| 43. | Drinking well water and occupational exposure to Herbicides is associated with chronic kidney disease, in Padavi-Sripura, Sri Lanka
(Jayasumana et al.,2015) |
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| 44. | Chronic kidney disease of uncertain aetiology: prevalence and causative factors in a developing country
(Jayatilake et al.,2013) |
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| 45. | Agrochemicals and Chronic Kidney Disease of Multi-Factorial Origin (CKDmfo): An Environmentally Induced, Occupational Exposure Disease
(Sunil J Wimalawansa,2015) |
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| 46. | Chronic Kidney Disease of Unknown Etiology Should Be Renamed Chronic Agrochemical Nephropathy
(Saroj Jayasinghe,2014) |
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| 47. | Importance of Arsenic and pesticides in epidemic chronic kidney disease in Sri Lanka
(Jayasumana et al.,2014) |
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| 48. | Glyphosate exposures and kidney injury biomarkers in infants and young children
(Trasande et al.,2019) |
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| 49. | Organochlorine pesticide level in patients with chronic kidney disease of unknown etiology and its association with renal function
(Ghosh et al.,2017) |
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| 50. | Pesticides and childhood cancer: An update
(Michael Nasterlack,2007) |
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| 51. | Summary V2 on Agrochemicals and NCD CKDu Evidence Bank | Download |
