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Obesity
Data from A.L. Negri and colleagues advance knowledge in obesity
January 20th, 2009
According to a study from Buenos Aires, Argentina, "In recent decades there has been an increasing prevalence of urolitithiasis in many western countries and at the same time there has been an increasing progression of obesity that has reached epidemic proportions. The aim of the present study was to assess the influence of overweight/obesity on the metabolic risk factors for renal stone formation." "We studied 799 renal stone formers (462 men and 337 women) who came to the clinic for metabolic risk factors evaluation. They were all studied with a standard protocol (two 24-h urine collections and serum parameters). They were divided according to their BMI in normal (BMI...
Source: TB & Outbreaks Week (2009-01-20)
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