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ReviewNutrients2019

Which Diet for Calcium Stone Patients: A Real-World Approach to Preventive Care.

Claudia D'Alessandro, Pietro Manuel Ferraro, Caterina Cianchi, Massimiliano Barsotti, Giovanni Gambaro, Adamasco Cupisti

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Review in Nutrients, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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24citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
4.4field-weighted citation impact, top 5% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

24 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 55 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Claudia D'AlessandroDepartment of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Pisa, 56126 Pisa, Italy. dalessandroclaudia@gmail.com.
Pietro Manuel FerraroU.O.C. Nefrologia, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS, Roma, Italia Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, 00168 Roma, Italy. pietromanuel.ferraro@unicatt.it.
Caterina CianchiDepartment of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Pisa, 56126 Pisa, Italy. cate.cianchi@virgilio.it.
Massimiliano BarsottiNephrology, Transplant and Dialysis Unit, AOUP, 56126 Pisa, Italy. m.barsotti63@gmail.com.
Giovanni GambaroDepartment of Medicine, University of Verona, 37129 Verona, Italy. giovanni.gambaro@hotmail.it.ORCID 0000-0001-5733-2370
Adamasco CupistiDepartment of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Pisa, 56126 Pisa, Italy. adamasco.cupisti@med.unipi.it.ORCID 0000-0002-8995-936X
University of Pisa · ITUniversità Cattolica del Sacro Cuore · ITUniversity of Verona · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Kidney stone disease should be viewed as a systemic disorder, associated with or predictive of hypertension, insulin resistance, chronic kidney disease and cardiovascular damage. Dietary and lifestyle changes represent an important strategy for the prevention of kidney stone recurrences and cardiovascular damage. A full screening of risk factors for kidney stones and for cardiovascular damage should be recommended in all cases of calcium kidney stone disease, yet it is rarely performed outside of stone specialist clinics. Many patients have a history of kidney stone disease while lacking a satisfactory metabolic profile. Nonetheless, in a real-world clinical practice a rational management of kidney stone patients is still possible. Different scenarios, with different types of dietary approaches based on diagnosis accuracy level can be envisaged. The aim of this review is to give patient-tailored dietary suggestions whatever the level of clinical and biochemistry evaluation. This can help to deliver a useful recommendation, while avoiding excessive dietary restrictions especially when they are not based on a specific diagnosis, and therefore potentially useless or even harmful. We focused our attention on calcium stones and the different scenarios we may find in the daily clinical practice, including the case of patients who reported renal colic episodes and/or passed stones with no information on stone composition, urinary risk factors or metabolic cardiovascular risk factors; or the case of patients with partial and incomplete information; or the case of patients with full information on stone composition, urinary risk factors and metabolic cardiovascular profile.

Indexed as

BeveragesDiet, HealthyDrinkingExerciseRisk Reduction BehaviorCalcium, DietaryHumansKidney CalculiProtective FactorsRisk AssessmentRisk FactorsCalcium, Dietarydietfluid therapykidney stonenephrolithiasisnutritionprevention

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PMID31137803
PMCPMC6566930
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