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While seasonal variation of stone disease is well described, the time to formation of urinary calculi is unknown. Because southwestern Asia is a high risk environment for stone disease, the date of entry into this region is a definitive beginning to a period of increased risk of urinary calculi. The recent influx of Department of Defense personnel into southwestern Asia provided the opportunity to...
We quantified the burden of urolithiasis in the United States by identifying trends in the use of health care resources and estimating the economic impact of the disease. The analytical methods used to generate these results have been described previously. The rate of national inpatient hospitalizations for a diagnosis of urolithiasis decreased by 15% and hospital length of stay decreased from...
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