Mesoamerican Long Count calendar Mesoamerican Long Count calendar The Mesoamerican Long Count calendar is a non-repeating, vigesimal (base-20) and base-18 calendar used by several pre-Columbian Mesoamerican cultures, most notably the Maya. For this reason, it is often known as the Maya (or Mayan) Long Count calendar. Using a modified vigesimal tally, the Long Count calendar identifies a day by counting the number of days passed since a mythical creation date that corresponds to August 11, 3114 BCE in the Proleptic Gregorian calendar. The Long Count calendar was widely used on monuments. The two most widely used calendars in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, were the 260-day Tzolk'in
Mesoamerican nephropathy the same fashion or quantities as in Mesoamerica. However, heat stress measurements have not been assessed in these countries and cannot be compared, and CKD cases could be underreported, just like in the Mesoamerican region before the first description of the disease back in 2002. In any case, there are important differences between these Caribbean and Atlantic countries and the Mesoamerican Pacific coastlands, differences including A large (nearly 38,000 workers, 5 year follow up) prospective study of occupational heat stress and Kidney Disease from Thailand in 2012 found a 5-fold increased risk (adjusted odds ratio) for CKD in heat stress