Obesity does not only put individuals at risk for heart disease and diabetes—it's also a leading cause of kidney stone disease. Kidney stone disease is increasingly recognized as a chronic condition ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — University Hospitals has opened a specialized stone clinic at UH Ahuja designed to streamline care for ...

Kyle Wood, M.D., associate professor in the University of Alabama at Birmingham Department of Urology, details the link between obesity and kidney stones and what this could mean for the future of ...

The number of people suffering with kidney stones is becoming more prevalent, researchers and doctors say, attributing those increases to changes to diet and chronic dehydration. Kidney stones are a ...

Kidney stones are a common medical problem, affecting an estimated 1 in 10 Americans each year, according to the American Urological Association. While some stones may not cause any symptoms, others ...

For decades, kidney stones have been treated as inert pebbles that simply precipitate out of urine, a plumbing problem inside ...

Review authors concluded that urinary tract infection and kidney stone disease are “reciprocally causal.” A new review published in Current Urology Reports documents the coexistence of kidney stone ...

Approximately 11% of adult stone formers likely have some genetic predisposition. Mendelian monogenic stone diseases are uncommon among adult kidney stone formers, according to investigators. They ...

More children around the U.S. are getting kidney stones, a condition now wrongly associated with “white, middle-aged men”, experts say. The stones are pebble-like clusters of minerals and salts that ...

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