A Cross Sectional Study on Gallstone Disease and its Risk Factors in a Tertiary Care Hospital of South India - Abstract
This study aims to evaluate the epidemiology and risk factors of Gallstone disease (GSD) in South India population. Medical records of 124 patients diagnosed with GSD between October 2012 to May 2015 were reviewed retrospectively. Mean age of the GSD patients was 44.56 ± 14.9 years. Patients with gallstones were higher in women than in men. The male-to-female ratio of GSD patients was 1:1.4. Ninety Nine (80%) patients with gallstones underwent cholecystectomy. In our analysis, none of the risk factors (Diabetes mellitus, Coronary Artery Disease, Multiparity, Cholecystitis, Cholecystectomy, Non-veg diet) on occurrence of gallstones has been statistically significant. This study shows that increasing age and female gender are higher chance of gallstone formation compared to the others. Even though variations in risk factors for GSD, our study did not find any unique and different risk factor among the population of South India as compared to the other countries.