Global warming may increase kidney stone casesLinking climate change to kidney stones seems odd, but it's based on the solid medical finding that people in warm regions develop the condition at increased rates. Sweating in warm weather removes fluid from the body and increases the ...
Weather May Cause More Kidney StonesAs the planet warms during the coming century people will sweat more, not drink enough water to compensate and therefore develop more kidney stones. While the headline is a little bit of an unbelievable attention grabber (after all, ...
Warmer Temps, More Kidney StonesKidney stones are already more common in the warmer Southern states than in the North. Urologists even talk about a "kidney stone belt," a high-risk zone ...
News from across the nationGlobal warming could cause a rise in kidney stone cases across the Midwest in coming decades, according to a report Monday in the Proceedings of the ...