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Sarah Howles

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Academic urologist trying to understand kidney stones. University of Oxford

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Nature Reviews Nephrology @natrevneph.nature.com · 27/08/2025
Kidney stone disease: risk factors, pathophysiology and management go.nature.com/47hmWEe @danfuster.bsky.social @sarahhowles.bsky.social
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Kidney stone disease: risk factors, pathophysiology and management - Nature Reviews Nephrology
This Review discusses the pathophysiology of kidney stone formation and examines the contribution of urinary risk factors and genetic variants. The authors also consider current approaches to the mana...
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Journal of Clinical Investigation @jci.org · 09/08/2025
No stone goes unturned in the search for risk-associated variants in kidney stone disease— @celovegrove.bsky.social @sarahhowles.bsky.social & team identify three biologic pathways that underlie ~11-19% of common causes of stone formation: buff.ly/INjAjLy
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Sarah Howles @sarahhowles.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Our latest with editorial. Genetic susceptibility to kidney stone disease: unveiling pathogenesis and potential therapeutic targets @jclinicalinvest @drsarahhowles jci.org/articles/view/… jci.org/articles/view/��� @celovegrove.bsky.social @ndsurgicalsci.bsky.social
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Catherine Lovegrove @celovegrove.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Important work from Grace Wheeler, Victor Popoola, & @sarahhowles.bsky.social from @ox.ac.uk & @ndsurgicalsci.bsky.social in @collegeofsurgeons.bsky.social supported by @kidneyresearchuk.org, @wellcometrust.bsky.social, Medical Research Council, & @oxhealthbrc.bsky.social. Plenty more work to do!
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Catherine Lovegrove @celovegrove.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
www.kidneyresearchuk.org/2025/07/01/r... “By identifying 3 changes in 🧬 that ⬆️ the risk of kidney stones, it may be possible to use this info, alongside other risk factors, to provide personalised treatments for patients. ” @kidneyresearchuk.org @sarahhowles.bsky.social @ndsurgicalsci.bsky.social
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Research uncovers genetic changes linked to developing kidney stones - Kidney Research UK
Researchers have discovered DNA changes that likely control people’s calcium and phosphate levels and cause kidney stones.
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Sarah Howles @sarahhowles.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Rare disease gene association discovery in the 100,000 Genomes Project - Nature
A rare variant burden analytical framework for Mendelian diseases was developed and applied to data from the 100,000 Genomes Project, identifying 69 probable new disease–gene associations.
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BURSTurology @bursturology.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
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Matthias B. Moor, MD PhD @nephmoor.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
It’s now online! Published today at www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Empagliflozin in nondiabetic individuals with calcium and uric acid kidney stones: a randomized phase 2 trial - Nature Medicine
As part of the SWEETSTONE trial, the authors report the ability of the sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 inhibitor empagliflozin to reduce the likelihood of kidney stone formation in individuals without ...
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Veera Rajagopal @doctorveera.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
One of the underrated uses of plasma proteins is disease prediction. They predict most disease conditions surprisingly well, even better than demographics model. The plot compares AUC of plasma protein risk scores vs demographics in predicting disease endpoints in the UK Biobank.
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