Assessing risk for kidney stones using parathyroid hormone agonist and antagonist

摘要

The present invention relates to identifying the risk of a subject developing renal stones utilizing an assessment of PTH agonist, antagonist and/or total PTH levels, optionally together with an assessment of serum and/or urine calcium levels and/or other analytes. The present description further relates to monitoring and guiding treatment for renal stones and kits useful therefore.