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Do Australian Aborigines Suffer from Renal Tract Calculi?
Author(s) -
Bateson E. M.
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.596
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1445-5994
pISSN - 0004-8291
DOI - 10.1111/j.1445-5994.1977.tb04399.x
Subject(s) - medicine , northern territory , darwin (adl) , calculus (dental) , ethnology , dentistry , history , systems engineering , engineering
Summary:Do Australian Aborigines suffer from renal tract calculi? E. M. Bateson, Aust. N.Z. J. Med. , 1977, 7 , pp. 380–381. Analysis of intravenous pyelograms performed in the Darwin Hospital over the five‐year period, 1970–1974, showed that 9% of the examinations carried out on non‐Aboriginal patients demonstrated calculi in the renal tract. Although considerably fewer pyelograms had been performed on Aboriginal patients, only one showed a calculus. The result has been shown to be highly significant and is discussed in relation to racial and other differences between the Aboriginal and non‐Aboriginal people of the Northern Territory.