Metabolic syndrome and the composition of urinary calculi: is there any relation?

to systemic diseases, such as metabolic syndrome (MS) [9].MS is a chronic and multifactorial disease characterized by an association between clinical manifestations of pathologies that share a common pathophysiological mechanism: insulin resistance [6,7,9].Its prevalence varies according to age, gender and ethnicity, affecting 24% to 42% of the adult population and more than 66.4% of the older population [7].Its definition, by the International Diabetes Federation, include increased abdominal perimeter [males