The Impact of Nutritional Service in the Stone Clinic on the Patient Urine Collection Results

Carmel Medical Center

Overview

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.

Study Type

OBSERVATIONAL

Conditions

Kidney Stone Kidney Calculi

Interventions

Dietary recommendationsBEHAVIORAL

The test group will be seen by a nutritionist and will receive specific dietary recommendations according to their specific comorbidities and drugs

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 18 YearsMax age: 99 YearsHealthy volunteers:

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Inclusion Criteria: * 18 yo and older * 2 kidneys * Kidney or ureteric stone treated surgically or conservatively Exclusion Criteria: * Single kidney * Aberrant kidney anatomy

Locations (1)

Carmel Lady Davis Medical Center

Haifa, Israel

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

24h Urine collection results

to follow changes in the 24 hour urine collection results that are routinely taken as part as follow up: volume in millilitres; calcium, oxalate, magnesium, phosphorus sodium and potassium in mg/day;