Roux-en-Y weight loss surgery raises kidney stone risk

Thursday, June 18, 2009 - 07:14 in Health & Medicine

The most popular type of gastric bypass surgery appears to nearly double the chance that a patient will develop kidney stones, despite earlier assumptions that it would not, Johns Hopkins doctors report in a new study. The overall risk, however, remains fairly small at about 8 percent...

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