Clinical relevance of aortic calcification in urolithiasis patients

• Published in: BMC urology Vol. 17; no. 1; pp. 25 - 9
• Main Authors: Tanaka, Toshikazu, Hatakeyama, Shingo, Yamamoto, Hayato, Narita, Takuma, Hamano, Itsuto, Matsumoto, Teppei, Soma, Osamu, Tobisawa, Yuki, Yoneyama, Tohru, Yoneyama, Takahiro, Hashimoto, Yasuhiro, Koie, Takuya, Takahashi, Ippei, Nakaji, Shigeyuki, Terayama, Yuriko, Funyu, Tomihisa, Ohyama, Chikara
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England BioMed Central 04.04.2017; BMC
• Subjects: Abdomen; Age; Aged; Aorta; Aortic calcification; Aortic Diseases - complications; Atherosclerosis; Body mass; Body mass index; Calcification; Calcification (ectopic); Carcinoma, Renal Cell - physiopathology; Cardiovascular disease; Case-Control Studies; Chronic kidney disease; Diabetes; Diabetes mellitus; Female; Health promotion; Hospitals; Humans; Hypertension; Hypertension - etiology; Kidney - physiopathology; Kidney cancer; Kidney diseases; Kidney Failure, Chronic - etiology; Kidney Neoplasms - physiopathology; Kidney transplantation; Laboratories; Lipids; Lithiasis; Logistic Models; Male; Metabolism; Middle Aged; Nephrectomy; Obesity; Patients; Proteins; Regression analysis; Renal cell carcinoma; Renal function; Retrospective Studies; Stone former; Studies; Tomography; Uric acid; Urolithiasis; Urolithiasis - complications; Urolithiasis - physiopathology; Urology; Validity; Vascular Calcification - complications; Japan; Chronic kidney disease; Aortic calcification; Renal function; Stone former; Urolithiasis

The aim of the present study is to investigate the clinical relevance of aortic calcification in urolithiasis patients. Between January 2010 and September 2014, 1221 patients with urolithiasis were treated in Oyokyo Kidney Research Institute and Hirosaki University Hospital. Among these, 287 patient...