Urinary calcium excretion of children living in the east region of Turkey

M A Selimoğlu; H Alp; H Bitlisli; Z Orbak; M Energin; C Karakelleoğlu

Original Article

Turk J Pediatr 1998; 40(3): 399-404.

Urinary calcium excretion of children living in the east region of Turkey

Authors

M A Selimoğlu

H Alp

H Bitlisli

Z Orbak

M Energin

C Karakelleoğlu

Affiliations

Turk J Pediatr 1998; 40(3): 399-404.

Published: July 25, 1998

Abstract

We screened 1647 randomly selected Turkish primary school children to detect the prevalence of hypercalciuria. Ninety-seven children had hypercalciuria, with a prevalence of 5.88 percent. Mean Uca/Ucr ratio was 0.135 +/- 0.108; mean Uca/Ucr value for girls was 0.139 and for boys 0.130 (p > 0.05). Mean Uca/Ucr of boys with hypercalciuria was 0.341 +/- 0.09 and of girls 0.327 +/- 0.08 (p > 0.05). Of these 97 children all investigations could be completed in only 40 and these cases were considered to be idiopathic. Twelve children (21%) had a family history of consanguinity and 17 (29.8%) of renal stones. The relation between blood parathormone and Uca/Ucr ratio was not statistically important (p > 0.05).

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Copyright © 1998 The Author(s). This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium or format, provided the original work is properly cited.

How to cite

Selimoğlu MA, Alp H, Bitlisli H, Orbak Z, Energin M, Karakelleoğlu C. Urinary calcium excretion of children living in the east region of Turkey. Turk J Pediatr 1998; 40: 399-404.