The Impact of Nutritional Service in the Stone Clinic on the Patient Urine
The Impact of Nutritional Service in the Stone Clinic on the Patient Urine
Kidney stone disease has become a common phenomenon in the US and Europe with a growing incidence of about 10%. Life style and dietary changes have a cardinal part in kidney stone prevention. Therefore it was only natural to determine the impact of the addition of a nutritionist to a stone clinic run by a urologist and a nephrologist.
Kidney stone disease has become a common phenomenon in the US and Europe with a growing incidence of about 10%. A history of kidney stone disease has also been connected to cardiovascular and renal insufficiency events to a point that kidney stones is looked at today as a systemic predictor of hypertension, cardiovascular disease and more.
Seeing the importance of these risk factors we initiated a stone clinic for our kidney stone patients several years ago run jointly by a urologist and a nephrologist. Seeing that life style and dietary changes have a cardinal part in kidney stone prevention, it was only natural to determine the impact of the addition of a nutritionist to a stone clinic run by a urologist and a nephrologist on our patient parameters.
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