They affect about 1 in 11 Americans. The most common type of kidney stone is the calcium oxalate kidney stone, which is caused by too much oxalate and too little liquid in the urine. Typically ...

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Medically reviewed by Kashif J. Piracha, MD How long it takes to pass a kidney stone depends largely on its size. Those under ...

Of the three conditions, IBD poses the greatest risk of kidney stones. In addition to the loss of water due to chronic ...

such as calcium, oxalate, or uric acid, concentrate in the urine and cause kidney stones. Kidney stones can be worsened by dehydration, excessive salt intake, animal protein consumption ...

an important risk factor for calcium oxalate stone formation. By the administration of a controlled low oxalate diet the investigators will estimate endogenous oxalate synthesis in both non-obese and ...

COOKS is ideally situated to conduct the proposed research. While the associations between obesity and kidney stone risk have been defined, the mechanisms behind this relationship warrant further ...

The incidence of calcium oxalate nephrolithiasis in ... is interindividual variability in the accumulation of oxalate, especially by the kidney. This Review summarizes the transport and function ...

Traditionally, oxalate has been relegated to the status of a metabolic by-product, the role of which in stone disease is limited ... The incidence of calcium oxalate nephrolithiasis is increasing ...