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What is the relationship between kidney stones and obesity?
Host: David Crabb, MD
Interview: Charles Scales, M.D., Robert Wood Johnson Foundation/U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Clinical Scholar in the departments of urology and medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.
In 1994, only one in 20 Americans developed kidney stones. Today that figure has risen to a startling one in 11. Charles Scales, M.D., Robert Wood Johnson Foundation/U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Clinical Scholar in the departments of urology and medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, recently published his study of this trend. This week on “Sound Medicine” he discusses the suspected reasons behind the increased incidence of kidney stones in America and how obesity and diabetes increase the likelihood of kidney stones.
Additional Resources:
- Learn more about links between obesity, diabetes, and kidney stones here.
