Associated with relapse status and stone type; p = 0.006 for relapse status, p = 0.025 across stone types.
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Kidney Stone AI Evidence Explorer
Insights into anthropometric predictors and the exploratory role of AI in kidney stone recurrence and stone type.
Academic digest from the article
Abstract
Evidence dashboard
Dietary, anthropometric and stone-type signals
The visualizations reconstruct the numerical findings reported in the article tables and results section.
Relapse status: ideal weight, measured weight and water intake
Mann-Whitney U: ideal weight p = 0.006; measured weight p = 0.053.
Non-relapsers reported 2.1 L/day compared with 1.7 L/day in relapsers; p approximately 0.09.
No statistically significant associations were detected for isolated dietary components.
Computational framework
From clinical nutrition data to exploratory AI modelling
The article uses standard statistical testing and machine-learning models to rank variable importance, not to deliver a clinically validated prediction tool.
Clinical cohort and variables
Reconstructed tables
Core numerical evidence from the article
Values are transcribed from Table 1 and Table 2, then reorganized for reading on screen.
Table 1. Dietary factors and patient characteristics
| Parameter | Group | Value | Observation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fast-food | Consumers | 60.0% | Relapse percentages and mean values were rounded; no differences reached statistical significance. |
| Fast-food | Non-consumers | 58.9% | |
| Carbonated drinks | Consumers | 59.6% | |
| Carbonated drinks | Non-consumers | 58.9% | |
| Meat intake | Relapse group | 210.8 g/day | |
| Meat intake | Non-relapsed | 192.3 g/day | |
| Water intake | Relapse group | 1.7 L/day | |
| Water intake | Non-relapsed | 2.1 L/day | |
| Stone type | Oxalate | Weight: 92.6 kg Ideal Weight: 64.8 kg Water Intake: 2.0 L/day | Uric acid stone patients had higher weight and ideal weight, with lower water intake. |
| Stone type | Uric acid | Weight: 103.3 kg Ideal Weight: 73.3 kg Water Intake: 1.6 L/day | |
| Stone type | Other | Weight: 83.9 kg Ideal Weight: 64.5 kg Water Intake: 1.9 L/day |
Table 2. Weight and ideal weight
| Parameter / Group | N | Ideal weight | Weight | Observation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Relapse | 85 | 62.4 / 66.6 ± 8.9 kg | 92.1 / 92.4 ± 13.7 kg | Mann-Whitney U: ideal weight p = 0.006; weight p = 0.053. |
| Non-relapse | 58 | 72.3 / 70.7 ± 9.1 kg | 96.5 / 98.8 ± 17.5 kg | |
| Oxalate | 114 | 64.8 / 67.7 ± 9.2 kg | 92.6 kg | Kruskal-Wallis: ideal weight p = 0.025; weight p = 0.011. |
| Uric acid | 22 | 73.8 / 72.2 ± 8.1 kg | 103.3 kg | |
| Other | 6 | 60.5 / 64.8 ± 11.3 kg | 81.8 kg |