How Common Are Calcium Oxalate Kidney Stones?
Having kidney stones is very common. The prevalence of kidney stones is 8.8%, being 10.6% in males and 7.1% in females. Kidney stones are more common in obese people, white people and diabetics. This means that at any given time, 1 out of 11 people are having a kidney stone (which may be symptomatic or asymptomatic). The incidence of kidney stones is treated between 30 and 60 years old.
Calcium oxalate stones make 65% of all kidney stones. Calcium oxalate stones present as a monohydrate or a dihydrate and frequently are mixed with uric acid and calcium phosphate.
Bibliography
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Muñoz-Velez, Daniel, Fernando Garcia-Montes, Antonia Costa-Bauza, and Felix Grases. "Analysis of spontaneously passed urinary tract stones." Urological Research 38, no.1 (2009): 35-39. doi: 10.1007/s00240-009-0230-4.
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Read the other sections of this series:
Introduction
What Causes Calcium Oxalate Kidney Stones? A
What Causes Calcium Oxalate Kidney Stones? B
What Causes Calcium Oxalate Kidney Stones? C
What Causes Calcium Oxalate Kidney Stones? D