... antigen Diet Epidemiology Prostatic neoplasms Prostate cancer has become a major public health problem in countries with an increasingly aging population. The incidence and mortality rates from prostate cancer vary widely among countries [ 1 ]. Prostate cancer increases in men who have...

...’ hospital (Madrid) during the 4-year period of 1983–1987. The controls were 180 men selected to obtain a random sample of males from the same hospital, stratified according to age and date of admission as compared with the prostatic cancer patients. The results of the study revealed that a diet rich...

... to in the content or advertisements. Serum-urinary oxalate Diet Sodium-oxalate Glycine Protein Ascorbate Urol. int. 35: 309 315 (1980) Dietary Influence on Serum and Urinary Oxalate in Healthy Subjects and Oxalate Stone Formers M. Butz, H. Hoffmann and G. Kohlbecker Urologische Klinik und Poliklinik...

.... The ‘metabolic syndrome’ includes all the diseases, e.g. hypertension, lipid imbalances, type 2 diabetes mellitus, gout and cardiovascular disease, which are concomitant in the majority of stone formers. Dietary patterns, besides leading to stone formation, also determine stone chemistry. With a diet...

.... For this reason, dietary measures are the first level of intervention in primary prevention, as well as in secondary prevention of recurrences. An unbalanced diet or particular sensitivity to various foods in stone formers can lead to urinary alterations such as hypercalciuria, hyperoxaluria, hyperuricosuria...