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cord-020270-5mvzjrdg	nan	Balkan Nephropathy	1977-03-26		.txt	text/plain	1349	77	50	The incidence of Balkan nephropathy within the endemic area is variable, but levels as high as 10% of the population have been claimed for some villages with perhaps 30% of individuals showing symptomless proteinuria. Important information is provided by the incidence of Balkan nephropathy in individuals who move into or out of the endemic area. 8 Reviewing the subject in 1967, BARNES3 drew attention to the possible role of nephrotoxic fungi occurring as contaminants on foodstuffs, a notion which gained support from the later observations of AUSTWICK and SMITH.14 These workers reported a statistically significant correlation in three endemic areas between variation in the late-summer and autumn rainfall and the number of local deaths from Balkan nephropathy during the succeeding two years-the first clear association between a local environmental factor and the disease.	./cache/cord-020270-5mvzjrdg.txt	./txt/cord-020270-5mvzjrdg.txt