Letter to the Editor regarding: “Clinical management implications from 33, 579 urinary stones”
Zuomin Wang, Qinwei Liu, Wangdong Deng · 2026
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A study of near thirty-four thousand urinary stones drew praise and sharp doubts in a letter by Zuomin Wang, Qinwei Liu, and Wangdong Deng, from twenty twenty-six. The first study charted stone patterns and sepsis risk in southern China, the largest such group in Asia. The letter grants the scale, then presses on method points that may bend the claims.
Chief doubts cover case mix skewed by the virus years, when mild cases stayed home and hard cases came in. That skew could fake trend shifts after the surge. The letter also asks how dozens of side ills were coded, and whether they came before the stones or after. Clearer splits by case type would firm the trends, the authors argue.
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| CREATOR | Zuomin Wang, Qinwei Liu, Wangdong Deng |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 6 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |