Global warming may turn out to be more than just a pain in
the neck: Rising average temperatures might trigger an increased prevalence of
kidney stones.
About 12 percent of men and 7 percent of women in the United
States will be stricken during their lifetime with symptoms of a kidney stone,
which forms when minerals dissolved in urine crystallize somewhere in the
kidney or urinary tract.
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