Risk of ESRD and Mortality in Kidney and Bladder Stone Formers.

ABSTRACT:

Rationale & objectives

Kidney stones have been associated with increased risk for end-stage renal disease (ESRD). However, it is unclear whether there is also an increased risk for mortality and if these risks are uniform across clinically distinct categories of stone formers.

Study design

Historical matched-cohort study.

Setting & participants

Stone formers in Olmsted County, MN, between 1984 and 2012 identified using International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision codes. Age- and sex-matched individuals who had no codes for stones were the comparison group.

Predictor

Stone formers were placed into 5 mutually exclusive categories after review of medical charts: incident symptomatic kidney, recurrent symptomatic kidney, asymptomatic kidney, bladder onl

SUBMITTER: Dhondup T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6252145 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature