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- Title
Obesity rates in renal stone formers from various countries.
- Authors
Popov, Elenko; Almusafer, Murtadha; Belba, Arben; Bello, Jibril O.; Bhatti, Kamran Hassan; Boeri, Luca; Davidoff, Kaloyan; Hameed, BM Zeeshan; Hali´nski, Adam; Heilberg, Ita Pfeferman; Hongyi Hui; Petkova, Kremena; Rawa, Bapir; Guedes Rodrigues, Fernanda; Saltirov, Iliya; Spivacow, Francisco R.; Trinchieri, Alberto; Buchholz, Noor
- Abstract
Objective: To collect evidence on the rate of obesity in renal stone formers (RSFs) living in different climatic areas and consuming different diets. Materials and methods: Data of adult renal stone formers were retrospectively collected by members of U-merge from 13 participant centers in Argentina, Brazil, Bulgaria (2), China, India, Iraq (2), Italy (2), Nigeria, Pakistan and Poland. The following data were collected: age, gender, weight, height, stone analysis and procedure of stone removal. Results: In total, 1689 renal stone formers (1032 males, 657 females) from 10 countries were considered. Average age was 48 (±14) years, male to female ratio was 1.57 (M/F 1032/657), the average body mass index (BMI) was 26.5 (±4.8) kg/m². The obesity rates of RSFs in different countries were significantly different from each other. The highest rates were observed in Pakistan (50%), Iraq (32%), and Brazil (32%), while the lowest rates were observed in China (2%), Nigeria (3%) and Italy (10%). Intermediate rates were observed in Argentina (17%), Bulgaria (17%), India (15%) and Poland (22%). The age-adjusted obesity rate of RSFs was higher than the age-adjusted obesity rate in the general population in Brazil, India, and Pakistan, whereas it was lower in Argentina, Bulgaria, China, Italy, and Nigeria, and similar in Iraq and Poland. Conclusions: The age-adjusted obesity rate of RSFs was not higher than the age-adjusted obesity rate of the general population in most countries. The relationship between obesity and the risk of kidney stone formation should be reconsidered by further studies carried out in different populations.
- Subjects
KIDNEY stones; BODY mass index; OBESITY; GENDER; URINARY calculi
- Publication
Archives of Italian Urology & Andrology / Archivio Italiano di Urologia Andrologia, 2021, Vol 93, Issue 2, p189
- ISSN
1124-3562
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.4081/aiua.2021.2.189