Conversely, there was a decreasing trend in the proportion of younger hospitalized patients with urolithiasis (Table 1 ).
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Trends of Urolithiasis in China: A National Study Based on Hospitalized Patients from 2013 to 2018.
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Interestingly, analysis for the trends in delivery of care for urolithiasis showed a trend toward decreased adoption of procedures specific to kidney calculi such as open surgery and percutaneous nephrolithotomy during the 6-year study period, which differed from the trends found in developed countries [ 24 , 25 ].
Results Among 79.8 million hospitalized patients, 3.5 million were diagnosed with urolithiasis with an increasing trend (from 3.0% in 2013 to 4.0% in 2018).