Evaluación del daño renal por cadmio en población expuesta a contaminación por éste en agricultores de  Quila-Quila, Potosí: Evaluación del daño renal por cadmio en población expuesta a contaminación

C. Erostegui; Carla Oporto; Ricardo Sevilla; Ana María Romero; Lourdes Zalles

Authors

C. Erostegui Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas, Facultad de Medicina, UMSS, Cochabamba, Bolivia.
Carla Oporto Centro de Aguas y Saneamiento Ambiental. Facultad de Ciencia y Tecnología, UMSS. Cochabamba, Bolivia.
Ricardo Sevilla Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas, Facultad de Medicina, UMSS, Cochabamba, Bolivia.
Ana María Romero Centro de Aguas y Saneamiento Ambiental. Facultad de Ciencia y Tecnología, UMSS. Cochabamba, Bolivia.
Lourdes Zalles Laboratorios médicos “LABIMED”, Facultad de Medicina, UMSS, Cochabamba, Bolivia.

Abstract

Cadmium is a heavy metal present in mining and other wastes, and has deleterious effects on human health especially in the kidney in which it destroys tubular cells. In an investigation of the quality of the river beds that receive wastewater in the north of Potosí, Bolivia, the presence of cadmium was reported in potatoes watered with these water in Quila-quila, a rural town in the area.

objective : of this work was to identify possible damage from cadmium to the health of the inhabitants of Quila-quila.

Methods: for this, clinical review and clinical and chemical laboratory analysis of blood and urine from the inhabitants of Quila-quila, and the filtration rate was calculated glomerular (GFR) and this was correlated with indicators of glomerular injury.

Results: elevated levels of cadmium were found in the blood in some people, and a correlation of GFR with blood cadmium concentration and indicators of membrane injury glomerular.

Conclusion: in conclusion, the inhabitants of Quila-quila were contaminated by cadmium, which caused mild kidney damage.

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