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Does fasting in Ramadan increase the risk of developing urinary stones?

Abdullah O. Al Mahayni, Sultan S. Alkhateeb, Ibrahim H. Abusaq, Abdullah A. Al Mufarrih, Muath I. Jaafari and Amen A. Bawazir
Saudi Medical Journal May 2018, 39 (5) 481-486; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2018.5.22160
Abdullah O. Al Mahayni
From the College of Medicine (Al Mahayni, Jaafari), from the College of Public Health and Health Informatics (Bawazir), King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences; from the Department of Urology (Alkhateeb), King Abdulaziz Medical City; from the College of Medicine (Al Mufarrih), Al Maarefa Colleges, Riyadh, and from the College of Medicine (Abu-Saq), King Khalid University, Abha, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Sultan S. Alkhateeb
From the College of Medicine (Al Mahayni, Jaafari), from the College of Public Health and Health Informatics (Bawazir), King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences; from the Department of Urology (Alkhateeb), King Abdulaziz Medical City; from the College of Medicine (Al Mufarrih), Al Maarefa Colleges, Riyadh, and from the College of Medicine (Abu-Saq), King Khalid University, Abha, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Ibrahim H. Abusaq
From the College of Medicine (Al Mahayni, Jaafari), from the College of Public Health and Health Informatics (Bawazir), King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences; from the Department of Urology (Alkhateeb), King Abdulaziz Medical City; from the College of Medicine (Al Mufarrih), Al Maarefa Colleges, Riyadh, and from the College of Medicine (Abu-Saq), King Khalid University, Abha, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Abdullah A. Al Mufarrih
From the College of Medicine (Al Mahayni, Jaafari), from the College of Public Health and Health Informatics (Bawazir), King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences; from the Department of Urology (Alkhateeb), King Abdulaziz Medical City; from the College of Medicine (Al Mufarrih), Al Maarefa Colleges, Riyadh, and from the College of Medicine (Abu-Saq), King Khalid University, Abha, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Muath I. Jaafari
From the College of Medicine (Al Mahayni, Jaafari), from the College of Public Health and Health Informatics (Bawazir), King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences; from the Department of Urology (Alkhateeb), King Abdulaziz Medical City; from the College of Medicine (Al Mufarrih), Al Maarefa Colleges, Riyadh, and from the College of Medicine (Abu-Saq), King Khalid University, Abha, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Amen A. Bawazir
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vol. 39 no. 5 481-486
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2018.5.22160
PubMed 
29738008

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Saudi Medical Journal
Online ISSN 
1658-3175
History 
  • Received February 19, 2018
  • Accepted April 11, 2018
  • Published online May 1, 2018.

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Copyright: © Saudi Medical Journal This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Author Information

  1. Abdullah O. Al Mahayni, Medical Student⇑,
  2. Sultan S. Alkhateeb, MD,
  3. Ibrahim H. Abusaq, MBBS,
  4. Abdullah A. Al Mufarrih, Medical Intern,
  5. Muath I. Jaafari, Medical Student and
  6. Amen A. Bawazir, PhD
  1. From the College of Medicine (Al Mahayni, Jaafari), from the College of Public Health and Health Informatics (Bawazir), King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences; from the Department of Urology (Alkhateeb), King Abdulaziz Medical City; from the College of Medicine (Al Mufarrih), Al Maarefa Colleges, Riyadh, and from the College of Medicine (Abu-Saq), King Khalid University, Abha, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
  1. Address correspondence and reprint request to: Dr. Abdullah O. Al Mahayni, College of Medicine, King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. E-mail: almahayni044{at}ksau-hs.edu.sa ORCID ID: orcid.org/0000-0003-1838-2986
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