ArticleCalcified tissue international1990
Involvement of low-calcium diet in the reduced bone mineral content of idiopathic renal stone formers.
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- Nephrolithiasis, bone mineral density, osteoporosis, and fractures: a systematic review and comparative meta-analysis.Osteoporosis international : a journal established as result of cooperation between the European Foundation for Osteoporosis and the National Osteoporosis Foundation of the USA · 2016Pooled it
- Bone mineral density and sex hormone binding globulin as potential mediators of the causal effect of urolithiasis on osteoporosis risk: a Mendelian randomization.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2025Article
- Metabolic effects of cholecalciferol supplementation in patients with calcium nephrolithiasis and vitamin D deficiency.World journal of urology · 2021Article
- Risk of fracture in urolithiasis: a population-based cohort study using the health improvement network.Clinical journal of the American Society of Nephrology : CJASN · 2014Article
- Nephrolithiasis-associated bone disease: pathogenesis and treatment options.Kidney international · 2011Review
- Bone disease and hypercalciuria in children.Pediatric nephrology (Berlin, Germany) · 2010Review
- Bone disease and idiopathic hypercalciuria.Seminars in nephrology · 2008Review
- Bone mineral content in calcium renal stone formers.Urological research · 2005Review
- Long-term potassium citrate therapy and bone mineral density in idiopathic calcium stone formers.Journal of endocrinological investigation · 2005Article
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Abstract
The possibility that low-calcium intake in renal stone formers could lead to reduced bone mineral content was investigated in 123 male patients with idiopathic urolithiasis. Radius bone mineral content (BMC) was measured by single photon absorptiometry. Two groups of patients were analyzed: group 1 (n = 63) maintained on a free diet; group 2 (n = 60) maintained on a low-calcium diet (350 mg/day +/- 20 SEM) for 3.9 years +/- 0.6 SEM. The two groups of patients were investigated after a standard reduction of calcium intake for at least 1 week. The urinary excretion of calcium and of hydroxyproline, and the serum alkaline phosphatase activity were higher in both groups than in normal subjects submitted to the same low-calcium diet. Both groups of stone formers showed lowered radius BMC values at 3 cm (distal) and 8 cm (proximal) above the styloid process, but distal BMC was significantly lower in group 2 than in group 1. The results suggest that low-calcium intake could worsen the already decreased BMC of idiopathic renal stone formers.
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