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To the Editor: From their study of dietary calcium and other nutrients (March 25 issue),¹ Curhan et al. concluded that "a high dietary calcium intake decreases the risk of symptomatic kidney stones." This statement has resulted in much confusion and consternation among patients with kidney stones and their doctors. The news media and the public seem to have overinterpreted this conclusion as being applicable to all patients with kidney stones, which is clearly not the message intended by the authors.

Nephrolithiasis is not a single disease; rather, there are diverse stone types and diverse causes of calcium oxalate stones in . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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