NEW YORK, Jan. 2 (Xinhua) -- Historically, stones were pretty much a disease of white, middle-aged men, but that has changed dramatically over the last 30 years, as the disease affects adults and children in similar ways, The Washington Post on Thursday cited doctors and experts.
A 2016 study in the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology analyzed kidney stone incidence among 15-to-19-year-olds in South Carolina from 1997 through 2012. Researchers found a 28 percent increase over a five-year period for girls. For boys, that increase was 23 percent.
