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Kidney stones are on the rise - Harvard Health Blog - Harvard Health Publications

Kidney stones are on the rise - Harvard Health Blog - Harvard Health Publications

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Kidney stones are on the rise

POSTED FEBRUARY 12, 2016, 10:00 AM
Robert Shmerling, M.D., Faculty Editor, Harvard Health Publications




In the past, medical textbooks described the typical person unlucky enough to develop a kidney stone as a white, middle-aged, obese man who eats an unhealthy diet and doesn’t drink enough fluids. Those books may need an update. A new study has found not only that the incidence of kidney stones is going up, but that they are also developing in people not considered high-risk in the past, including children, women, and African Americans.




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