BACKGROUND: The high social-economic cost of nephrolithiasis wholly justifies the
attempts to understand its mechanism and avoid recurrences. The influence of dietary habits …

Abstract Effect of dietary modification on urinary stone risk factors. Background This study
was undertaken to ascertain the effect of dietary modification on urinary stone risks, and to …

Objectives To examine the relationship between 12 macro‐and micro‐nutrients and the risk
of recurrent calcium stone formation by comparing the diets of a large outpatient clinic …

Calcium nephrolithiasis in children is increasing in prevalence and tends to be recurrent.
Although children have a lower incidence of nephrolithiasis than adults, its etiology in …

Background: Zinc is an essential trace element for the normal growth and development of
human beings. The main objective was to evaluate the nutritional status of zinc and its …

Aims—To investigate whether increasing the daily baseline of gut calcium can cause a
gradual downregulation of the active intestinal transport of calcium via reduced parathyroid …

Kidney stone disease is common and is a major cause of morbidity involving the urinary
tract. Rising incidence rates of calcium oxalate stone disease, the most common type of …

Nephrolithiasis in children is a painful and costly disease that may also have detrimental
long-term effects on kidney function. Recent data provide evidence that the incidence of …

OBJECTIVE: To review the current literature on the dietary modification of urinary risk factors
as a means of reducing the likelihood of recurrent stone formation and to develop practical …

Objective: The purposes of this study were to investigate the kinetics of zinc in
schoolchildren between the ages of 6 and 9 years, of both sexes, and to verify its sensitivity …