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The Association Between Menopause, Postmenopausal Hormone Therapy, and Kidney Stone Disease in Taiwanese Women - Beyond the Abstract

Our study demonstrated that postmenopausal women had a higher prevalence of kidney stones, with an odds ratio as high as 1.5 times that of premenopausal women after adjustment for age and confounders. For postmenopausal women, we also tried to identify whether there are protective factors that could reduce kidney stone formation. Unfortunately, neither hormone supplementation nor breastfeeding reduces the risk of kidney stones. Future research is warranted to find ways to reduce kidney stones in postmenopausal women.

Written by: Tsz-Yi Tang, Jia-In Lee, Jung-Tsung Shen, Yung-Chin Lee, Hsun-Shuan Wang, Yao-Hsuan Tsao, Yi-Hsuan Wu, Shu-Pin Huang, Szu-Chia Chen, Jhen-Hao Jhan, Jiun-Hung Geng

Department of Urology, Kaohsiung Municipal Siaogang Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan; Department of Urology, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan; Department of Psychiatry, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan; Graduate Institute of Clinical Medicine, College of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan; Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Municipal Siaogang Hospital, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan; Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Nephrology, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan; Faculty of Medicine, College of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan; Research Center for Environmental Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

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