For every two women who have kidney stones, around three men have them.

 

 

 

 

 

Source:
Scales CD Jr, Curtis LH, Norris RD, et al.
Changing gender prevalence of stone disease.
Journal of Urology. 2007; 177: 979-982.

 

 

 

 

 

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Stones can happen at any age. But you're most likely to get them when you're 20 to 40 years old.

 

 

 

 

 

Source:
Uribarri J, Oh MS, Carroll HJ.
The first kidney stone.
Annals of Internal Medicine. 1989; 111: 1006-1009.

 

 

 

 

 

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White people are more likely to get kidney stones than Asian people, and Asian people are more likely to get them than black people.

 

 

 

 

 

Source:
Portis JA, Sundaram CP.
Diagnosis and initial management of kidney stones.
American Family Physician. 2001; 63: 1329-1338.

 

 

 

 

 

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The number of people with kidney stones seems to be going up. In the late 1970s, slightly more than 3 in every 100 adults between the ages of 20 and 74 had kidney stones. This rose to slightly more than 5 in 100 in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

 

 

 

 

 

Source:
National Kidney and Urologic Disease Information Clearinghouse.
Kidney and urologic diseases statistics for the United States.
April 2006. Available at http://kidney.niddk.nih.gov/kudiseases/pubs/kustats (accessed on 7 May 2009).

 

 

 

 

 

⁴ No one knows why.

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