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Epidemiology of Stone Disease in Iran

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Iran is a country of great variation in geography and climate. The urolithiasis prevalence rate is 5.7 %, and the incidence is 145/100,000. The gender ratio (M:F) is 1.15–1.38:1. Stone recurrence occurs in 36 %. The most common coexisting diseases are hypertension (15.8 %) and diabetes (11.4 %). Stone disease is more common in the uneducated; 13.6 % are obese and 37.1 % overweight. The commonest stone components are whewellite (81.5 %), apatite (69 %), weddellite (40.7 %), and ammonium acid urate (24.4 %). In one study, infection stone comprised 6.5 % of all stones.

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  1. Department of Urology, Research Development Center, Sina University Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Imam Khomeini Street, Hassan Abad Sq., Tehran, Iran

    Gholamreza Pourmand M.D. & Bita Pourmand M.D.

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  1. Department of Surgery Section of Urology, Aga Khan University, Stadium Road, P.O. Box 3500, Karachi, 74800, Pakistan

    Jamsheer J. Talati

  2. Karolinska Institutet, Solnavägen 1, Solna, Stockholm, 171 77, Sweden

    Hans-Goran Tiselius

  3. , Syracuse University, Crouse Hospital, 1226 East Water Street, New York, 13210, New York, USA

    David M. Albala

  4. , Department of Urology, Tongji Hospital, 1095 Jiefang Avenue, Wuhan, 430030, China, People's Republic

    ZHANGQUN YE

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Pourmand, G., Pourmand, B. (2012). Epidemiology of Stone Disease in Iran. In: Talati, J., Tiselius, HG., Albala, D., YE, Z. (eds) Urolithiasis. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-4387-1_11

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