"Expert" Blames Kidney Stones on Climate Change
https://www.golocalprov.com/health/technology-is-helping-combat-kidney-stones-brown-alpert-medical-school-expe
relevant paragraph:
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"Rising Temps a Factor
"There’s a lot of interest in trying to look at the relationship between climate change and rising temperature and kidney stone disease in general," said Thavaseelan. "I think the fundamental issue is one of dehydration and rising temperatures being associated with dehydration might predispose those patients who are at risk to make stones, to having a higher incidence in folks who suffer from kidney stones."
A specialist in endourology, Thavaseelan was nominated and chosen to be a Rhode Island Medical Society “4 under 40 Award” winner in 2019.
About Alpert Medical School – and Smart Health
Since granting its first Doctor of Medicine degrees in 1975, the Warren Alpert Medical School has become a national leader in medical education and biomedical research.
By attracting first-class physicians and researchers to Rhode Island over the past four decades, the Medical School and its seven affiliated teaching hospitals have radically improved the state's health care environment, from health care policy to patient care.
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