New York: The high level of zinc, the key nutrient mineral, in the body may contribute to kidney stone formation, suggests a research, reports IANS. Zinc may be the core by which stone formation starts, showed the results that might ultimately lead to the identification of new preventive and therapeutic approaches for urinary stone and diseases related to it.
“The ultimate goal of our research team is to prevent kidney stone formation and to understand the mechanisms by which they form a part of that effort,” said lead author Thomas Chi, assistant professor of medicine at the University of California – San Francisco, US. “Kidney stones are hard, often jagged masses of crystalised minerals that form in the kidney.”
