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Climate change may cause more kidney stones：study 研究：氣候變遷可能造成更多腎結石

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A warming planet is likely to bring more hot days, more sweaty people and more dehydration -- a key risk factor for a surge in kidney stones, researchers said Thursday.

暖化的地球可能帶來更多炎熱的日子、更多流汗的人們，以及更多的脫水──這是腎結石暴增的重要風險因子，研究人員週四指出。

Already, the study in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives found a link between hot days and kidney stones in 60,000 patients whose medical records were studied in Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles and Philadelphia.

「環境衛生觀點」期刊刊登的這份研究，在亞特蘭大、芝加哥、達拉斯、洛杉磯與費城6萬名病患的病歷中，發現熱天與腎結石的關聯。

"We found that as daily temperatures rise, there is a rapid increase in the probability of patients presenting over the next 20 days with kidney stones," said lead author Gregory Tasian, a pediatric urologist at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.

「我們發現，日氣溫升高時，病患未來20天腎結石的可能性急速增加。」研究主要作者、費城兒童醫院小兒泌尿科醫師泰西安說。