claim: In the sugarcane region of El Salvador, as much as one-fifth of the population has chronic kidney disease, including over a quarter of the men, the presumed result of dehydration from working the fields they were able to comfortably harvest as recently as two decades ago.
evidences.evidence_id: El Salvador:223
evidences.article: El Salvador
evidences.evidence: In the summer of 2001 a severe drought destroyed 80% of El Salvador's crops, causing famine in the countryside.
evidences.votes: REFUTES NOT_ENOUGH_INFO
evidences.evidence_id: Hypertension:120
evidences.article: Hypertension
evidences.evidence: Serum creatinine is measured to assess for the presence of kidney disease, which can be either the cause or the result of hypertension.
evidences.votes: REFUTES NOT_ENOUGH_INFO
evidences.evidence_id: Kidney:144
evidences.article: Kidney
evidences.evidence: Only when the amount of functioning kidney tissue is greatly diminished does one develop chronic kidney disease.
evidences.votes: REFUTES NOT_ENOUGH_INFO
evidences.evidence_id: Mesoamerican nephropathy:3
evidences.article: Mesoamerican nephropathy
evidences.evidence: In El Salvador and Nicaragua alone, the reported number of men dying from this painful disease has risen five-fold in the last 20 years, although some researchers believe hidden cases have always been there and this increment in official data could be partially due to the recent increase in reports and improved case search, pushed by the growing social and political interest in the disease.
evidences.votes: REFUTES SUPPORTS
evidences.evidence_id: Mesoamerican nephropathy:4
evidences.article: Mesoamerican nephropathy
evidences.evidence: In El Salvador, the disease has become the second leading cause of death among adult men, and according to a recent editorial, it has been estimated that this largely unknown epidemic has caused the premature death of at least 20,000 men in the region.
evidences.votes: REFUTES SUPPORTS