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  • Nephrology
  • Urology
  • Biochemistry

Background:

  • Kidney stones are a prevalent condition with a high recurrence rate.
  • Previous research on urinary factors and kidney stone risk often assumed linear relationships or used arbitrary thresholds.
  • The hierarchy of effects for various urinary parameters on stone formation remains incompletely understood.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To evaluate the independent associations between specific urine chemistries and kidney stone formation.
  • To examine the magnitude and shape (linear vs. nonlinear) of these associations.
  • To determine the relative importance of different urinary factors in kidney stone risk.

Main Methods:

  • Analysis of 9,045 24-hour urine collections from 6,217 participants in large prospective cohort studies.
  • Multivariable logistic regression with restricted cubic splines to model potentially nonlinear relationships.
  • Optimal inflection point and dominance analyses to identify thresholds and relative importance of urinary factors.

Main Results:

  • Most urinary factors, except urine pH, were significantly associated with kidney stone risk.
  • Higher urinary calcium, oxalate, phosphorus, and sodium correlated with increased stone risk.
  • Higher urine volume, uric acid, citrate, potassium, and magnesium correlated with decreased stone risk.
  • Relationships were largely linear for urine calcium, uric acid, and sodium, with some attenuation above inflection points for others.
  • Dominance analysis ranked calcium, volume, and citrate as most important, followed by oxalate, potassium, and magnesium, then uric acid, phosphorus, and sodium.

Conclusions:

  • Urine chemistries exhibit complex, non-uniform relationships with kidney stone formation.
  • Differential relative associations and magnitudes of effect exist among urinary factors.
  • These findings provide a more nuanced understanding of urinary risk factors for kidney stones.