theLIBERTARIAN
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 Posted: Mon May 19, 2008 8:28 pm Post subject: Global Warming Linked to Increase in Kidney Stones |
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ORLANDO, Florida, May 19, 2008 (ENS) - Links between environmental conditions and urinary tract diseases are emerging from papers presented this week at the 103rd Annual Scientific Meeting of the American Urological Association taking place in Orlando.
Rising global temperatures could lead to an increase in kidney stones, according to research conducted by Margaret Pearle, Yair Lotan, and T. Brikowski and published in the "Journal of Urology."
The southern United States is considered "the stone belt" because these states have higher incidences of kidney stones. Current risk of stone disease in the Southeast is up to 50 percent higher than for the Northwest, the researchers say.
Rising global temperatures could expand this region; the fraction of the U.S. population living in high-risk stone zones is predicted to grow from 40 percent in 2000 to 50 percent by 2050.
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