PREVALENCE OF UROLITHIASIS IN MALE PATIENTS AND THEIR DIETARY PATTERN AT ALLIED HOSPITAL FAISALABAD.

http://doi.org/10.46536/jpumhs/2023/13.03.443

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Urolithiasis is a process of stone formation in kidneys, urinary bladder or urethra urinary

tract. The occurrence of urolithiasis may be the cause of different factors e.g., nutritional status, dietary habits

and environmental factors like temperature and humidity. Pakistan is one of such countries which fall in

geographical zone of stone belts. OBJECTIVE: The proposed study was aimed to determine dietary pattern

of male patients with urolithiasis, the minerals contents Calcium, Phosphorous and Magnesium, pH and

creatinine of urine and serum in male urolithiasis patients between the ages of 35 to 65 years and determine

incidence of urolithiasis in male patients at Faisalabad. METHODOLOGY: The proposed study was aimed

at selecting male patients at random having urinary stones at Allied Hospital Faisalabad before surgery. The

research work was carried out between ten control and twenty urolithiasis patients to determine the pH by

using pH strips and minerals Calcium, Magnesium and Phosphorous content in serum and urine of male

urolithiasis patients spectrophotometrically and also to assess the dietary pattern in patients through Dietary

Performa. The creatinine level in urine of the male patients was taken from their medical record. RESULTS:

The obtained data analyzed statistically using analysis of variance ANOVA to interpret the result. The results

for the prevalence of male urolithiasis patients at Faisalabad of the present study were fifty three percent,

dietary pattern of male urolithiasis patients was highly significant and quite different from controls. Urinary

pH and creatinine of subjects and controls were non-significant. The mineral contents calcium in serum of

male urolithiasis patients was highly significant between the group 1 control and group 2 male urolithiasis

patients. In magnesium and phosphorous, it was non-significant and in urine, calcium and phosphorous was

highly significant and magnesium was non-significant. CONCLUSION: The conclusion of the proposed

study was that the prevalence and incidence of urolithiasis in male patients at Faisalabad were increasing day

by day.