Association between Blood Dioxin Level and Chronic Kidney Disease in an Endemic Area of Exposure

• Chien-Yuan Huang,

  Affiliations Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, Tainan Science Park Clinic, Chi-Mei Medical Center, Tainan, Taiwan, Department of Occupational Safety and Health, Chang Jung Christian University, Tainan, Taiwan

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• Cheng-Long Wu,

  Affiliations Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, Tainan, Taiwan, Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

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• Jin-Shang Wu,

  Affiliation Department of Family Medicine, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

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• Jung-Wei Chang,

  Affiliation Department of Family Medicine, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

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• Ya-Yun Cheng,

  Affiliation Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

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• Yau-Chang Kuo,

  Affiliations Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, Tainan, Taiwan, Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

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• Yi-Ching Yang,

  Affiliation Department of Family Medicine, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

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• Ching-Chang Lee ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ching-Chang Lee, How-Ran Guo

  * E-mail: hrguo@mail.ncku.edu.tw (H-RG); cclee@mail.ncku.edu.tw (C-CL)

  Affiliations Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, Research Center for Environmental Trace Toxic Substances, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

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• How-Ran Guo

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ching-Chang Lee, How-Ran Guo

  * E-mail: hrguo@mail.ncku.edu.tw (H-RG); cclee@mail.ncku.edu.tw (C-CL)

  Affiliations Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, Tainan, Taiwan, Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, Research Center for Environmental Trace Toxic Substances, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, Occupational Safety, Health, and Medicine Research Center, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

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