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What is your approach to patients with recurrent nephrolithiasis and hypercalciuria who take daily calcium supplements?

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For patients with recurrent nephrolithiasis and hypercalciuria who take daily calcium supplements, which of the following approaches do you typically follow?

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Nephrology · Mayo Clinic
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Calcium-based stone disease and osteopenia/porosis commonly occur together in postmenopausal women. Calcium supplements are the basic treatment for osteopenia/porosis but may aggravate stone disease in hypercalciuric patients.

My approach is first to ask our Stone Clinic dietitian to estimate the pa...

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