• April 27, 2024

It occupies one of the first places worldwide in its consumption and in Mexico it ingests around 600 milliliters a day of sugary drinks; in addition, it has the highest annual death rate related to these, according to a study carried out by the Harvard School of Public Health.

However, it is not all, an investigation exposed in the magazine Clinic of the American Society of Nephrology revealed that regularly drinking sugary drinks could increase the risk of kidney stones.

Women suffer more and more from kidney stones ...

Researchers of the Institute of Urology Vattikuti Henry Ford They found that the number of women who develop painful kidney stones is increasing.

For Khurshid R. Ghani, researcher who participated in the study, this originates because more and more women suffer from overweight, and obesity is an important factor to develop kidney stones. In addition, they found that women are more vulnerable than men to developing this condition.

The study is based on data from the national emergency sample, from 2006 to 2009, for a period of time during which there were 3.6 million visits to the emergency department due to stones from the upper urinary tract.

Kidney stones are common, they occur when the materials in the urine form a stone. For some people, they go without pain, but for others, they can cause a lot of pain and even bleeding, depending on the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases.

A good option to avoid it is exercise. Then add a dose of physical activity to your daily routine. Remember, your health is in your hands.

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