Studies of genetic, gastrointestinal, renal and dietary factors in white and black South African subjects as a possible key to understanding the relative absence of calcium oxalate kidney stone disease in the black population

Theka, Takalani P

Studies of genetic, gastrointestinal, renal and dietary factors in white and black South African subjects as a possible key to understanding the relative absence of calcium oxalate kidney stone disease in the black population

Doctoral Thesis

2009

Publisher

University of Cape Town

Department

Department of Chemistry

Faculty

Faculty of Science

Abstract

The incidence of urolithiasis in South Africa's black population is extremely rare «1%) while in the white population it is similar to that of western countries (-15%). The present thesis was aimed at shedding more light on the complex nature of the physicochemical, biochemical and physiological mechanisms in black South Africans which provide this group with a natural protection against urolithiasis in contrast to their white compatriots. Four studies comprise this thesis.

Keywords

Chemistry

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