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The Many Factors Involved in Chronic Kidney Disease

Environmental Health Chat·NIEHS Partnerships for Environmental Public Health·18 November 2025·8 min
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About this episode

In this podcast, we’ll hear about a unique epidemic of kidney disease that cannot be explained by traditional or known risk factors like high blood pressure or genetics, called chronic kidney disease of unknown origin (CKDu), and what NIEHS-funded researchers are doing to understand and address this growing problem.