A new study implies that older women who exercise more have lesser risk to developing kidney stones.
The University of California, San Francisco Medical Center, University of Washington School of Medicine and Georgetown University have worked together to examine several data from over 85,000 postmenopausal women in the United States. Their findings indicated that different levels of physical activities reduce the risk of these women to develop kidney stones by up to 31 percent.
The researchers will be presenting this significant finding on the upcoming conference of the American Urological Association, in San Diego. They also want to point out that it is the length of time spent on doing physical activities that lessens the risk and not the level of difficulty of these activities. Older women can spend couple of hours a week just walking and reduce their risk by more than 35 percent already.
Older women may also trim down their consumption of high-calorie foods to further lessen the probability of developing kidney stones by more than 40 percent.
Dr. Kevin McVary, AUA spokesperson, said in a press release that kidney stones is one of the most common health condition but there are ways to prevent it from happening. Aside from changing the diet, exercising can also inhibit the development of kidney stones for older women. The research team will be doing further studies to establish these recent findings and see if it is also applicable for other age groups.
The results of this study and the data used are not yet final until such time that it is published in any medical journal.
Almost 9 percent of the U.S population suffers from kidney stones which are common for men but the number of women affected has significantly increased by 70 percent for the past 15 years. Obesity is another known factor for risk to kidney stones.
