Dietary and urinary risk factors for stones in idiopathic calcium stone formers compared with healthy subjects
Author(s) -
F. Leonetti,
B. Dussol,
P. Berthézène,
Xavier Thirion,
Yvon Berland
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
nephrology dialysis transplantation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.654
H-Index - 168
eISSN - 1460-2385
pISSN - 0931-0509
DOI - 10.1093/ndt/13.3.617
Subject(s) - medicine , urinary system , uric acid , urine , calcium , urinary calcium , calcium oxalate , urea , endocrinology , body mass index , gastroenterology , physiology , urology , biochemistry , chemistry
The high social-economic cost of nephrolithiasis wholly justifies the attempts to understand its mechanism and avoid recurrences. The influence of dietary habits and urinary risk factors has been evaluated, but the results were discrepant, probably because of differences in the methodologies used to compare patients and controls.
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