This is an extra bad news for people who overweight, latest research at the University of Texas-South-western Medical Centre at Dallas revealed that the more overweight people are, then the more they risking them self to get uric acid kidney stones. This is the first medical research that success to found direct link between obesity and uric acid kidney stones. Percentage of kidney stones sufferer get troubled by uric acid kidney stones are about 5 percent and about 30 percent chance of percentage for diabetic patients with kidney stones. “It is yet another price they should pay for being obese or overweight,” said Dr. Khashayar Sakhaee, program director of the university’s General Clinical Research.
Roughly, 10 percent of people in North America will get an issue with kidney stones once or multiple times in their lives. Latest research which been doing by some of researcher from University of Chicago revealed that there are almost 5,000 kidney stones sufferer spread out in Chicago and Dallas. The results did not found too many differences between male and female or among kidney stones sufferer with controlled diet. There are large percentages of people who have very acidic urine, which ironically also found in people who have control their diets. “For the first time, we are advising weight loss as part of our therapy. That connection had not been made in the past,” said Dr. Sakhaee, professor of internal medicine at the researcher university.
As those review above just doesn’t enough, in February 2004, result from one of kidney stones related research at university have been published with conclusion that uric acid kidney stones are also connected with type-2 diabetes and insulin resistance. That result also revealed that heavier people tend to have more insulin resistance. As it also connected with earlier study, Dr. Charles Y. C. Pak, senior author of the current study and professor of internal medicine said that discovering direct link between body weight and uric acid kidney stones will bring significant effect and could change past researcher hypothesis.
“In 1986 we struggled and still blurring and get no consensus regarding “gouty diathesis” and it related to uric acid kidney stones forming phases in the absence of any dissemble cause” Dr. Pak said. “We now know that one of the causes is obesity that leads to insulin resistance and diabetes. The challenge for our research team is to determine whether weight loss or sensitisation to insulin would bring about a relief of kidney stones formation.”
Compile and re-written based on medical release from Nutrition Health Review, winter 2003
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