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Climate Change Could Cause More Kidney Stones
City Lab ^ | July 10, 2014 18:12 GMT | John Metcalfe

Posted on 07/11/2014 1:33:02 AM PDT by Up Yours Marxists

When one thinks of the warming climate, the phrases that pop into mind probably aren't "nausea and vomiting," "sharp, stabbing pain," and "blood in your urine." Yet these awful symptoms could become more prolific in the coming decades, as hotter weather appears to be linked with the risk of growing a kidney stone.

This disheartening prognosis comes from doctors at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and elsewhere who've completed a seven-year-long study of 60,433 patients in several major U.S. cities. When the temperature goes up, there's a subsequent spike in the number of people visiting hospitals for stone issues, they write in Environmental Health Perspectives. According to lead author Gregory E. Tasian: "We found that as daily temperatures rise, there is a rapid increase in the probability of patients presenting over the next 20 days with kidney stones."

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TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Science; Weather
KEYWORDS: algore; chickenlittle; climatechange; doomage; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; hennypenny; kidneystones
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1 posted on 07/11/2014 1:33:02 AM PDT by Up Yours Marxists
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To: Up Yours Marxists

Do they seriously want me to believe that a kidney stone can form in a matter of weeks?


2 posted on 07/11/2014 1:45:55 AM PDT by LukeL
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To: Up Yours Marxists

Look for more cases of dehydration, too. When the temperatures go up....blah, blah, blah!

These people have no shame.


3 posted on 07/11/2014 2:00:39 AM PDT by ApplegateRanch (Love me, love my guns!©)
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To: LukeL

I’m just wondering if, during this short time, they monitored other external factors - like water supply, food intake and source, medicines taken, a whole plethora of things. Examine the source of the money, and you’ll have your answer.


4 posted on 07/11/2014 2:02:48 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Up Yours Marxists
It's been known for more that 20 years that kidney stones are more prevalent in the SE United States than in other areas. Temperature is one suspected reason. Also diet and minerals present in the water.

I've had three, and all presented in the summer.

5 posted on 07/11/2014 2:03:40 AM PDT by Leroy S. Mort
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To: Gaffer

Found some work of his and another researcher released in March of this year. “Evaluation and Medical Management of Kidney Stones in Children”.

It has a lot of specifics about chemical makeup of the stones and the distribution of compounds, but it says that more study is needed [the standard “go to” conclusion in most any externally funded research paper].

Frankly, making this leap of mean temperature vs. cities and occurrences of kidney stones, etc. seems just too convenient for the Global Warming alarmists. I’m thinking this is more Poli-Med science than medicine, myself.


6 posted on 07/11/2014 2:15:50 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Leroy S. Mort

“I’ve had three, and all presented in the summer.”

AlGore would disagree. He says you’re getting all these stones because of the pickup truck you drive. Time to add extra heat shielding to your transmission tunnel.

And it wouldn’t hurt to wear fireproof undies either.


7 posted on 07/11/2014 2:16:30 AM PDT by Up Yours Marxists
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To: Leroy S. Mort

Yes, but is “Global Warming” responsible?


8 posted on 07/11/2014 2:17:05 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Up Yours Marxists

It sounds like we need to outlaw warm weather.


9 posted on 07/11/2014 2:43:11 AM PDT by Tax-chick (The world has enough land, food, water, clothing, and money. It doesn't have enough love.)
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To: Up Yours Marxists

Climate change causes me to pass gas whenever Obama speaks.


10 posted on 07/11/2014 2:59:37 AM PDT by bikerman (Because of the lack of ammo there will be no warning shots. Proud tea bagger.)
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Kidney stones cause discomfort because racism.


11 posted on 07/11/2014 3:07:19 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy ("Harvey Dent, can we trust him?" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBsdV--kLoQ)
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Even by their own hoax-estimates, they are talking about global changes of 1-2 degrees centigrade.

Moving from Boston to Miami you will experience much more temperature change yearly than the 1-2 degrees estimated by the climate fraudsters.

So my question: does moving to Miami cause Kidney stones?


12 posted on 07/11/2014 3:07:59 AM PDT by samtheman
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To: Up Yours Marxists

So people in the tropics are heavily afflicted by kidney stones? Rates are higher in FL than ND? No? Well then, no correlation to heat.


13 posted on 07/11/2014 3:25:53 AM PDT by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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Weather “experts” say polar vortex returning

http://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/cool-weather-experts-say-polar-vortex-making-comeback-n153246


14 posted on 07/11/2014 3:25:54 AM PDT by airborne (My heroes don't wear capes - My heroes wear dog tags!)
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Fewer redheads and more kidney stones.

Is there anything global warming climate change can't do?

15 posted on 07/11/2014 3:50:54 AM PDT by al_c (Obama's standing in the world has fallen so much that Kenya now claims he was born in America.)
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> doctors at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and elsewhere who’ve completed a seven-year-long

Multiple doctors funded over seven years? And there’s no money in global warming? Anyone who studies anything is probably trying to find even the loosest connection to temperature.


16 posted on 07/11/2014 4:50:13 AM PDT by ArcadeQuarters ("Immigration Reform" is ballot stuffing)
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To: Up Yours Marxists

...........meanwhile, an Arctic front is coming down from Canada bringing temperatures to well below normal in the coming week.


17 posted on 07/11/2014 5:15:03 AM PDT by Flintlock (islam is a LIE, mohamuud a PEDOPHILE, sharia is POISON.)
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To: Up Yours Marxists

What next will climate change cause? ADHD? Or will it be Incontinence?


18 posted on 07/11/2014 5:33:52 AM PDT by ExCTCitizen (I'm ExCTCitizen and I approve this reply. If it does offend Libs, I'm NOT sorry...)
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To: Up Yours Marxists

Add that to the list!


19 posted on 07/11/2014 5:39:36 AM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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Post nasal drip and the heartbreak of psoriasis.


20 posted on 07/11/2014 5:41:38 AM PDT by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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