Renal lithiasis and nutrition

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Renal lithiasis is a multifactorial disease. An important number of etiologic factors can be adequately modified trough diet, since it must be considered that the urine composition is directly related to diet. In fact, the change of inappropriate habitual diet pa...

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Main Authors: Prieto Rafel M, Costa-Bauza Antonia, Grases Felix
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2006-09-01
Series:Nutrition Journal
Online Access:http://www.nutritionj.com/content/5/1/23
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Summary:<p>Abstract</p> <p>Renal lithiasis is a multifactorial disease. An important number of etiologic factors can be adequately modified trough diet, since it must be considered that the urine composition is directly related to diet. In fact, the change of inappropriate habitual diet patterns should be the main measure to prevent kidney stones. In this paper, the relation between different dietary factors (liquid intake, pH, calcium, phosphate, oxalate, citrate, phytate, urate and vitamins) and each type of renal stone (calcium oxalate monohydrate papillary, calcium oxalate monohydrate unattached, calcium oxalate dihydrate, calcium oxalate dihydrate/hydroxyapatite, hydroxyapatite, struvite infectious, brushite, uric acid, calcium oxalate/uric acid and cystine) is discussed.</p>
ISSN:1475-2891