Introduction: Prevention of urolithiasis occurrence and recurrence is important issue, due to one affects mainly people of the working age and often leads to disability.
Aim: To study the impact of harmful habits like smoking, alcohol drinking, and hypodynamics on the risk of urolithiasis occurrence and recurrence.
Materials and methods: It was conducted a retrospective epidemiological study of a representative sample of 443 patients with urolithiasis (basic group, 403 - of them without recurrences and 40 - with recurrences) and 203 patients without urolithiasis - control group, at discharge them from urologic in-patient departments of health care facilities of Ivano-Frankivsk region.
Results: It was established widespread of smoking and alcohol consumption among male respondents (31.8% smoke and 42.1% smoked, 43.4% used alcohol weekly or more) and generally low physical activity (53.6% among both sexes). The Odds Ratio was at: smoking - 0.90 (95% CI = 0.64-1.26; p>0.05) for occurrence and 1.43 (0.74-2.74; p>0.05) for recurrence; alcohol drinking - 0.81 (0.56-1.16; p>0.05) and 0.92 (0.43-1.94; p>0.05) respectively; low physical activity - 1.44 (0.81-2.56; p>0.05) and 3.52 (0.47-26.44; p>0.05).
Conclusion: It was received no credible evidence that cigarette smoking, alcohol drinking and hypodynamics influence the occurrence and recurrence of urolithiasis. The research in this approach should continue.
Keywords: alcohol drinking; cigarette smoking; physical activity; urolithiasis.