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. 2020 Feb 11;2020(2):CD004292. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD004292.pub4

NCT01100580.

Trial name or title The links between water and salt intake, body weight, hypertension and kidney stones: a difficult puzzle
Methods Prospective, randomised, open‐label, interventional study
Participants For stone formers main inclusion criteria
  • age between 20 and 70 years

  • Caucasian race

  • idiopathic calcium stone disease

  • normal renal function (creatininemia < 1.2 mg/dL)

Interventions Dietary supplement: low salt diet + water therapy
Outcomes Primary outcome
  • Normalisation of urinary stone risk factors


Secondary outcomes
  • Urinary sodium/calcium relationship

  • Blood pressure reduction

  • Relationship between 24‐h calciuria and blood pressure

  • Stone rate reduction

  • Correlation BMI‐urinary stone risk factors

  • Compliance

Starting date May 2010
Contact information Prof Loris Borghi +390521703375 loris.borghi@unipr.it
Notes Latest information: Study not yet recruiting (1 December 2018)

BMI: body mass index