INCIDENCE OF URINARY CALCULI IN THE AMERICAN NEGRO
- 28 December 1946
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in JAMA
- Vol. 132 (17) , 1063-1066
- https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.1946.02870520017004
Abstract
It is generally conceded that some races have a higher incidence of urinary calculi than others. The Negro is generally believed to be particularly immune to this disease. J. Swift Joly1 in discussing the etiology of stone made the following statement: "On turning to the racial incidence of lithiasis, one is struck by the comparative immunity of the Negro. This, I believe, still holds good in the case of the Negro population of America which has received no fresh blood from Africa for almost a century." Holmes and Coplan2 wrote that only 1 case of urolithiasis in a Negro was seen at the James M. Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami, Fla., during a five year period. This is of particular interest, since, according to the same authors, the incidence of calculi is particularly high in southern Florida. Reaser3 commented on the infrequent occurrence of urolithiasis in patientsKeywords
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