Association of bladder pain syndrome/interstitial cystitis with urinary calculus: a nationwide population-based study.
Keller, Joseph, Chen, Yi-Kuang, Lin, Herng-Ching·International urogynecology journal·2013
This study looked at whether people with bladder pain syndrome/interstitial cystitis (BPS/IC) are more likely to have had kidney stones or other urinary stones. Researchers compared about 9,000 people newly diagnosed with BPS/IC to over 46,000 similar people without BPS/IC and found that those with BPS/IC were significantly more likely to have a history of urinary stones, particularly bladder stones.