The role of cadmium exposure from smoking in kidney disease progression Cadmium, a heavy metal found in cigarette smoke, is another insidious factor in the narrative of smoking and kidney disease progression
The pathophysiological pattern common to these diseases may provide an explanation for the often poorly understood links between non-communicable diseases and disease comorbidities, like for instance CVDs and type 2 diabetes (Stampfer, 2006), COPD and osteoporosis (Sarkar et al., 2015), CVDs and psoriasis (Hu and Cheng-Che, 2017), psoriasis and AD (Kim et al., 2020), and psoriasis with CVDs, cancers, type 2 diabetes and Crohns disease (Takeshita et al., 2017), to name but a few
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