Epidemiology of Urolithiasis

Schneider, Hans-Joachim

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“…The latter ratio does not differ from other reports from western countries [8,9]. Regarding age dis tribution, stone occurrence is high between the 3rd de cade and the 6th decade.…”

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confidence: 41%

“…Regarding age dis tribution, stone occurrence is high between the 3rd de cade and the 6th decade. The peak age has shifted from the 3rd to the 5th decade, and the age span of commonly affected generations has widened to become similar to that in western countries [8]. The sharp rise of frequency in the 3rd decade, reported by Takasaki [10], is not seen any more.…”

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confidence: 79%

“…They range from excessive food intake in the absence of exercise to anything from simple stress reactions to psychopathological events. All in all, however, such cases are only clini cally or biochemically detectable in 30-50% of stone patients [8]. The remainder we label as 'idiopathic'.…”

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Epidemiology of Urolithiasis in Japan: A Chronological and Geographical Study

Yoshida

1990

Urol Int

157

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A nationwide survey on urolithiasis in Japan between 1965 through 1987 was carried out, succeeding the previous 1955 and 1966 studies, in an effort to evaluate chronological and geographical changes in urolithiasis among the Japanese people who are relatively racially homogenous and living with similar customs and habits, which have changed dramatically from the old Japanese to westernized modes in a very short period after the Second World War. Incidence of calcium-containing urinary stones in the upper urinary tract has been increasing in Japan since the Second World War with increasing westernization of life-style and industrialization, with the annual incidence of urolithiasis steadily increasing from 53.8/100,000 general population in 1965 to 92.5 in 1985. According to the data, 5.4% of the population may be expected to develop a urinary calculus at least once in their life time. Analysis of 69,949 stones obtained during the years from 1978 to 1987 with infrared analysis showed that 79.4% were calcium oxalate and/or calcium phosphate stones, 7.4% were struvite with or without carbonate apatite, 5.2% were uric acid or urate, and 1.0% were cystine. In the era of new treatment modalities such as the endourological surgery and the extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy, open surgical treatments were replaced with new types of treatment in about 75%ofthecasesin 1985.

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“…The latter ratio does not differ from other reports from western countries [8,9]. Regarding age dis tribution, stone occurrence is high between the 3rd de cade and the 6th decade.…”

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confidence: 79%

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Epidemiology of Urolithiasis in Japan: A Chronological and Geographical Study

Yoshida

1990

Urol Int

157

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“…This is a fee-for-service hospital, which in spite of enormous welfare funds is unable to serve the indigent. These figures parallel those from Germany before the advent of ESWL (1976), where 35.8% were kidney stones, and 12% bladder stones [40], and are quite different from the figures at the Civil Hospital Karachi. After ESWL, because of rapid throughput, the proportions of upper to lower urinary tract stones rose further (see Table 3.6).…”

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Epidemiology of urolithiasis in Pakistan

Talati¹,

Khan²,

Drago³

et al. 1997

The Management of Lithiasis

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“…Recent studies have shown that in uroli thogenic processes both promoters and deficit of inhibi tors play an important role [1][2][3][4][5]. Promoters of the crys tallization are basically calcium phosphate, uric acid, mucoproteins or even some drugs.…”

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Inhibitors of Calcium Oxalate Crystallization and Urolithiasis

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In urolithogenic processes both, promoters and deficit of inhibitors, play an important role. The inhibitory action of added inhibitors (magnesium, citrate, pyrophosphate and chondroitin sulphate) was investigated using the urine of 72 patients with calcium urolithiasis. It was concluded that the deficit of inhibitors seems to be an important cause of stone formation in idiopathic oxalocalcic urolithiasis. Nevertheless, when that specific heterogeneous nucleation takes place it becomes an important factor and the inhibitor plays a complementary role in calcium oxalate urolithiasis.

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Epidemiology of Urolithiasis

Cited by 31 publications

References 115 publications

Epidemiology of Urolithiasis in Japan: A Chronological and Geographical Study

Epidemiology of Urolithiasis in Japan: A Chronological and Geographical Study

Epidemiology of urolithiasis in Pakistan

Inhibitors of Calcium Oxalate Crystallization and Urolithiasis

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