Approximately 2.6 percent of non-obese participants those with a Body Mass Index (BMI) of 29 or less were diagnosed with a kidney stone during the evaluation period (2002-2006). By comparison, 4.9 percent of obese patients (those with BMIs of 30 or greater) were diagnosed with a kidney stone during the same period.
Obese females were as much as 3.18 times more likely than non-obese females to suffer from kidney stone disease, and obese males were as much as 2.54 times as likely to suffer from kidney stone disease.
The authors commented on the results in a recent report in the Journal of Urology: "What the present work uniquely adds to our understanding of the relationship between obesity and kidney stone disease is the subcategorization of a large cohort with extreme, or morbid, obesity. Obesity is associated with an increased risk of kidney stone formation. Dietary modification and weight loss should be encouraged in the obese population for a multitude of reasons but also to reduce stone risk."
(Source: renalandurologynews.com)
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