Published: Sep 5, 2014 By Salynn Boyles, Contributing Writer, MedPage Today Action Points In a meta-analysis of cohort studies, a history of kidney stones was associated with an increased adjusted risk estimate for CHD and stroke. The data suggest that the risk may be higher in women than men. Development of kidney stones was associated […]
Margaret S. Pearle The Journal of Urology Volume 192, Issue 2, Pages 316–324, August 2014 Purpose The purpose of this guideline is to provide a clinical framework for the diagnosis, prevention and follow-up of adult patients with kidney stones based on the best available published literature. Materials and Methods The primary source of evidence for […]
Diedtra Henderson June 23, 2014 Calcium and vitamin D supplementation may cause hypercalciuria and hypercalcemia in some postmenopausal women, according to a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study. Clinicians should measure blood and urine calcium levels at baseline and every 3 months in women who take the supplements, the researchers say. John Christopher Gallagher, MD, from the […]
Dietary intake of fiber, fruit, and vegetables decrease the risk of incident kidney stones in women: A Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) report The Journal of Urology, 06/09/2014 Clinical Article Group WW, et al. – In this study, authors want to evaluated the relationship between dietary fiber, fruit, and vegetable intake, and the risk of kidney […]
What Matters: Prediction Rule for Kidney Stones Frontline Medical News, 2014 Jun 04, JO Ebbert Nephrolithiasis affects 1 in 11 people in the United States resulting in several million emergency department visits annually. The prevalence of nephrolithiasis is higher among men, obese individuals, and white non-Hispanics. The prevalence of kidney stones also appears to be […]
The Journal of Urology, 03/08/2014 Torricelli FCM, et al. Authors studied the impact of dyslipidemia on 24–hour urinalysis and stone composition. There is a link between dyslipidemia and kidney stone risk that is independent of other components of metabolic syndrome such as diabetes and obesity. Specific alterations in the patient lipid profiles may portend unique […]
Wang S. · Zhang Y. · Mao Z. · He X. · Zhang Q. · Zhang D. Urol Int (DOI: 10.1159/000356559) Abstract Objective: Epidemiologic studies have reported various results relating coffee to urolithiasis. A meta-analysis of cohort and case-control studies was conducted to pool the relative risk (RR) estimates of the association between coffee and […]
Published: May 5, 2013 | Updated: May 6, 2013 By Charles Bankhead , Staff Writer, MedPage Today Action Points This study was published as an abstract and presented at a conference. These data and conclusions should be considered to be preliminary until published in a peer-reviewed journal. Women who exercised even minimally had a significantly […]
Changes in Urinary Lithogenic Features Over Time in Patients With Urolithiasis Urology Volume 74, Issue 1, July 2009, Pages 51–55 Yong-June Kima, Yun-Sok Haa, Sung-Whan Job, Seok-Joong Yuna, In-Sun Chuc, Wun-Jae Kima, Sang-Cheol Leea, , Objectives To assess the changes and sex-specific differences in urinary metabolic risk factors with time. Methods We performed a retrospective […]