Abstract

DASH-Style Diet- Why Should Urologist Care?

Highlights

  • Counseling of healthy individuals about foods that increase the risk of kidney stones should be carried our to reduce stone related morbidities

  • Further researches should be conducted in order to determine the efficacy of a Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH)-style diet and if established true, this diet should be integrated for the prevention of nephrolithiasis

  • Jawad Ahmed and Farheen Malik contributed to the manuscript design

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Summary

Introduction

Pakistan is one of the Afro Asian countries where the incidence of stone diseases is consistently high because of its presence in Stone Belt countries [1]. DASH-style diet is easy to adhere, harmless, affordable and can be proven exponentially beneficial in healthcare like ours, where the cost of treatment has to be borne directly by the patients and patients’ affordability is still a vital drawback.

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