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The dark side of stone disease — stones do still kill

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A study investigating the mortality attributed to urolithiasis over a 15-year period has noted an increasing rate of death with a simultaneous rise in stone prevalence. However, the exact mechanisms by which nephrolithiasis causes death remains unclear.

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  1. Marcelino Rivera and Amy Krambeck are at the Department of Urology, Mayo Clinic, 200 1st Street SW, Rochester, Minnesota 55905, USA.,

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Rivera, M., Krambeck, A. The dark side of stone disease — stones do still kill. Nat Rev Urol 13, 247–248 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrurol.2016.56

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