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Influence of socioeconomic disparities, temperature and humidity in kidney stone composition

J. bras. nefrol; 42 (4), 2020
Abstract Introduction: Large variations in demographic, economic and environmental factors might influence the worldwide distribution of urolithiasis, but scarce data are available concerning their associations with stone composition. We aimed to evaluate the frequency and composition of kidney stones a...

A large 15 - year database analysis on the influence of age, gender, race, obesity and income on hospitalization rates due to stone disease

Int. braz. j. urol; 42 (6), 2016
ABSTRACT Purpose: To assess the public hospitalization rate due to stone disease in a large developing nation for a 15-year period and its association with socio-demographic data. Materials and Methods: A retrospective database analysis of hospitalization rates in the Brazilian public health system was p...

Kidney stones: composition, frequency and relation to metabolic diagnosis

Medicina (B.Aires); 76 (6), 2016
Nephrolithiasis is one of the most frequent urologic diseases. The aim of this paper is to study the composition and frequency of 8854 patient kidney stones and in a subset of them their metabolic risk factors to be related to their type of calculi. Physicochemical and crystallographic methods were used ...