Clinical Trial: Metabolic Assessment of Aging Men With Urinary Lithiasis

Study Status: Completed
Recruit Status: Completed
Study Type: Observational




Official Title: Clinical Investigation of Aging Men With Renal Stones: The Role of Bone Demineralization (Metabolic and Hormonal Assessment)

Brief Summary: Urinary lithiasis is a common disease on young adults, but not so far on aging people. Nowadays, the investigators are seeing a gradative growth on men above sixty years old, mainly in industrialized countries. The purpose of this study is to investigate metabolic aspects of aging men with renal stones, towards blood tests, 24 hour-urinary samples, imagenological exams and bone densitometry. The investigators have made a case-control model.