Occupational Distribution of Urolithiasis in Central Sri

Urolithiasis is the third most common urological disease affecting both males and females. Factors which are affected to predispose to sporadic urolithiasis include dietetic issues, occupation, geographic and climatic aspects as well as the special characteristics of drinking water. The study sample size of this descriptive cross sectional study was 184. Both male and female patients were included under the age group of 20 to 70 who have done same occupations for more than two years were enrolled in this study. Patient’s demographic details, blood and urine investigations, X-ray Kidney, Ureter, Bladder (KUB) and ultra sound KUB data were recorded. The association between the percentages of colic and the occupational category was calculated. Then it was compared with the occupational distribution of general Sri Lankan population. The objective of this study was to evaluate the pattern of occupational distribution of patients presenting with urolithiasis. As the results, mean age of the subjects were 40.86 ±11.99 and out of the sample 72.82% (n=134) were male and 27.17% (n=50) were female. Population of patients with colic, there were 24.14% patients who did sedentary occupations whereas in general population the percentage was 32.9%. Population of patients with colic, there were 76.48% patients who did nonsedentary occupations whereas in general population the percentage was 71.30%. Therefore Urolithiasis was prevalent among nonsedentary occupants than sedentary occupants.