The strengths of the Swedish study reviewed here include the large population based prospective cohort design along with the long period of follow up to validate the composition of the kidney stones.

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Other limitations of the Swedish study reviewed here include the fact that it was based on an observational cohort and that we cannot obviously know the other lifestyle factors of the cohort which may have contributed to stone formation.

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