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Annual meeting abstracts

The following are the abstracts from the scientific presentations of the 10th Annual Congress of the Asia-Pacific Association of Medical Toxicology (APAMT), which was held in Penang, Malaysia, in November 2011. Clinicians and researchers from over 20 countries attended this meeting, where more than 110 abstracts were showcased as either oral platform or poster presentations. Nine young investigators from across the Asia-Pacific region were given scholarships to attend the meeting and to present their research as oral presentations. Their talks were mixed in with invited presentations on subjects relevant to Asia, including Chinese and Ayurvedic medicine toxicity, snake systematics and venom, phar-macovigilance, two plenary talks by recipients of APAMT Honorary Fellowships, and high-quality clinical and public health research. Two very successful symposia were held on fomepizole use and on recreational drug use in Asia-Pacific (hosted by American College of Medical Toxicology (ACMT)). The pre-congress fo-cused on medical management of pesticide and recreational drug poisoning. The next APAMT congress will be held in Hong Kong at the end of November 2012. More information on this congress and on previous congresses can be found at http://www.a-siatox.org. We encourage members of ACMT to come to this meeting to hear about the fascinating toxicology characteristic of this region. Introduction: Chronic kidney disease due to unknown ae-tiology (CKD-U) is one of the growing health problems in Sri Lanka. About 8,000 diagnosed CKD-U patients are enduring treatment in the country largely in the North Central Region (NCR). Ninety percent (90 %) of the patients are farmers. Objectives: The study is designed to calculate an agricultural risk index for an individual who lives in high risk areas of the country. Methods and Materials: The study is a case–control study and 315 CKD-U patients and 321 normal healthy individuals were randomly selected from NCR. Age, sex and agriculture-related risk factors from both patients and controls were collected. Multiple linear regression logistic models were applied to calculate the risk index in terms of probability. Results: The gender of the individual (male or female), age category (<45, 45–60 or <60 years), cultivating area (>1 or <1 ha), exchange of labour (high or low) and protective measures against agrochemicals (low or high) were considered for index calculation. According to the multiple linear regressions logistic models the maximum and minimum risks were calculated as 1.0 and 0.0, respectively. The male individual whose age is greater than 60 years, low exchange of labour …