Obesity -- mild or severe -- raises kidney stone risk

Thursday, February 18, 2010 - 00:21 in Health & Medicine

Obesity in general nearly doubles the risk of developing kidney stones, but the degree of obesity doesn't appear to increase or decrease the risk one way or the other, a new study shows.

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