Abstract

The recent trend to not restrict calcium intake in people afflicted with calcium kidney stones represents the culmination of several lines of investigation, including studies of urine chemistry, bone density and physiology, intestinal transport, and, lately, a well-performed randomized controlled trial1. A strong impetus to this development was the analyses of large epidemiologic databases that were too powerful to ignore2. In this issue of Kidney International, Stamatelou et al3 have exploited another large database to yield information regarding stone disease of which nephrologists should be aware3.

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