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Is herbal tea consumption a factor in endemic nephropathy?

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Acknowledgments

This survey was supported by the Grant 108-0000000-0329 from the Ministry of Science of Republic of Croatia, Grant 04/38 Croatian Foundation for Science, and Grant ES-04068 from the National Institutes of Environmental Health Sciences.

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  1. School of Medicine, University of Zagreb, Šalata 3, Zagreb, Croatia

    Vanja Ivković

  2. Department of Nephrology, Hypertension, Dialysis and Transplantation, School of Medicine, University Hospital Centre Zagreb, University of Zagreb, Kišpatićeva 12, Zagreb, Croatia

    Vanja Ivković, Sandra Karanović, Margareta Fištrek Prlić, Jelena Kos, Ivana Vuković Lela, Mario Laganović, Ljiljana Fodor & Bojan Jelaković

  3. General Hospital “Dr. Josip Benčević”, Slavonski Brod, Croatia

    Maja Mišić

  4. County Institute of Public Health, Brodsko-Posavska County, V. Nazora 5, Posavska, Slavonski Brod, Croatia

    Dragana Jurić & Ante Cvitković

  5. “Andrija Štampar” School of Public Health, School of Medicine, University of Zagreb, Rockefeller st. 4, Zagreb, Croatia

    Ksenija Vitale

  6. Department of Epidemiology, University of California School of Medicine, Irvine, CA, USA

    Karen Edwards

  7. Laboratory of Chemical Biology, Department of Pharmacological Sciences, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA

    Arthur Patrick Grollman

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Ivković, V., Karanović, S., Fištrek Prlić, M. et al. Is herbal tea consumption a factor in endemic nephropathy?. Eur J Epidemiol 29, 221–224 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10654-014-9886-3

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