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Can kidney stones cause high blood pressure?

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Dr. Larry Maturani answered

Specializes in Internal Medicine

Not directly: High blood pressure can be caused by pain associated with untreated nephrolithiasis. Otherwise, no. I would suggest that you look into other causes of you blood pressure. Sometimes people have high blood pressure without finding any causes-essential hypertension.

Answered 10/4/2016

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Stone and HTN: These are not directly related.

Answered 8/30/2014

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