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Do lifeguards have more renal stones – Sept 2010

Throw No Stones: How to Prevent Calcium Oxalate Renal Stones

Current Sports Medicine Reports, September/October 2010 - Volume 9 - Issue 5 - pp 260-261
doi: 10.1249/JSR.0b013e3181f19367 PMID: 20827088

There was no abstract, just a snippit of interest via Google Scholar

“the incidence of renal stones is increased 20-fold in Israeli life- guards”

Was that due to water loss, not drinking enough fluids, too much vitamin D, not using the restroom often enough, or ???

Risk factors listed at http://www.wrongdiagnosis.com/k/kidney_stones/riskfactors.htm

  • Family history of kidney stones
  • Sedentary occupations
  • Lack of physical activity
  • Hypercalcuria
  • Acidic urine
  • Alkaline urine
  • Reduced urine
  • Too little water
  • Excessive sweating
  • Gout
  • Kidney infections
  • Vitamin A deficiency
  • Overactive parathyroid gland

Specific Lifestyle Factors from http://www.aurorahealthcare.org/yourhealth/healthgate/getcontent.asp?URLhealthgate=%2219718.html%22

  • Diet rich in meat, sodium, oxalate, and tomatoes
  • Low fluid intake
  • Increased fluid loss in hot weather
  • High intake of grapefruit juice
  • Dehydration
  • Long periods of inactivity
  • Being overweight
  • Fasting

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