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The effects of treatment on the hypercalciuria of chronic cadmium poisoning

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Cadmium induces a variety of effects on kidney tubules including hypercalciuria. This is accompanied by hyperzincuria. The present work shows that both of these biochemical abnormalities can be corrected but where a state of cadmium-induced-anaemia exists urine zinc and calcium excretion do not follow the expected parallel course in response to iron therapy as they do with bendrofluazide.

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Scott, R., Paterson, P.J., Burns, R. et al. The effects of treatment on the hypercalciuria of chronic cadmium poisoning. Urol. Res. 7, 285–289 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00256610

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