Posted on 07/17/2008 4:44:58 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
Dallas, TX (AHN) - A University of Texas Southwestern Medical School study linked the rise in kidney stone ailments to global warming.
The connection of kidney stone with warm weather has been established based on statistics that southeastern states have 50 percent higher incident than northeastern states. Kidney stones, although on the rise nationwide since 1976, were observed to have higher rates of occurrence during summer.
With global warming even the northeastern region will likely experience higher incidents with an estimated 1.6 million new cases by 2050.
The rise in kidney stone incidents by 25 percent in 2050 will be accompanied by a corresponding annual $900 million hike in kidney-related treatment bills compared with 2000 levels. The high-risk zones will expand to 56 percent of states by 2050 and 70 percent by 2095.
David Goldfarb of the New York University Medical center said, quoted by the USA Today, "Everyone on warmer temperatures is at higher risk for kidney stones, so the findings make perfect sense."
Aside from an expected rise in kidney stone ailments, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said global warming may also bring with it more deadly heat waves, algae blooms that infect marine life with toxins and the faster spread of certain insect-borne diseases like Lyme disease and Rocky Mountain spotted fever.
Now if you can tie this to Polar bears and Penguins... you my friend, are golden...
It’s also responsible for hemorrhoids.
I think welfare should be blamed on global warming cause it’s too darn hot to work or wear a condom!
And it is making liberals twice and idiotic as before also...before at least they were silent about it, now, the speak and remove all doubt...ahem, Nancy Pelosi.
In other news: frostbite, heart attacks from snow shoveling, death from accidents in the ice and snow are expected to reduce by 100%
I’ve got an ingrown toenail...that’s from Global Warming, too, right? How about my painful tooth?
How ‘bout they’re frickin’ insane?
Global warming must cause mental illness. That would explain all the liberals.
mother’s revenge..
Drink more water!
The fact that there hasn’t been any actual warming in about a decade doesn’t seem to stop these moron. So now all this stop is caused by the IMAGINARY global warming!
The next press release will be a prediction of increased incidence of kidney stones in polar bears and penguins.
Surely this is supposed to be satire?
President Bush and the present Congress approval ratings are going down, thanks to man-made global warming. (sarcasm on).
And being left handed, myopic, flattulent, obese, bald, stinky, horrible at cricket, goiter and bad breath.
Go ahead and run that one... it’s a winner
How is this possible in this day and age with everybody sporting a plastic bottle of $5.00 per gallon “Designer Water” and all the various “Sports Drinks”????
Seriously, how can this study even pass as any thing other than stupidity beyond the pale. How can a scientist even put his name on such unadulterated crap
There are probably thousands of other possible reason kidney stones have increased 25 %
Food consumption, water treatment, increase in soft drink consumption, different food processes just to name a few
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