Bikram Kharga1, Barun Kumar Sharma2, Varun Kumar Singh3, Kumar Nishant1, Phuchungla Bhutia3, Roshan Tamang3, Nitin Jain4. 1. Associate Professor, Department of Surgery, Sikkim Manipal Institute of Medical Sciences , Sikkim, Gangtok, India . 2. Associate Professor, Department of Radiology, Sikkim Manipal Institute of Medical Sciences , Sikkim, Gangtok, India . 3. Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery, Sikkim Manipal Institute of Medical Sciences , Sikkim, Gangtok, India . 4. Senior Resident, Department of Surgery, Sikkim Manipal Institute of Medical Sciences , Sikkim, Gangtok, India .
Abstract
INTRODUCTION: Obesity is a well-established risk factor for cholelithiasis. But most of the studies have actually tried to establish the risk of cholelithiasis in overweight and obese people. Very few studies have addressed the issue of cholelithiasis in patients with otherwise normal Body Mass Index (BMI). In this study we have tried to establish if there is any relationship between increasing BMI and cholelithiasis. AIM: To establish a relationship between increasing BMI and risk of cholelithiasis. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Retrospective analysis was carried out after doing a prospective pilot study. Ten years data of patients admitted to surgery ward with complaints of pain abdomen was reviewed. Patients with cholelithiasis were segregated as cases and patients with some other diagnosis were selected as controls. Patients with incidental diagnosis of cholelithiasis were excluded. Appropriate analytical tools were used to draw the results using SPSS
INTRODUCTION: Obesity is a well-established risk factor for cholelithiasis. But most of the studies have actually tried to establish the risk of cholelithiasis in overweight and obesepeople. Very few studies have addressed the issue of cholelithiasis in patients with otherwise normal Body Mass Index (BMI). In this study we have tried to establish if there is any relationship between increasing BMI and cholelithiasis. AIM: To establish a relationship between increasing BMI and risk of cholelithiasis. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Retrospective analysis was carried out after doing a prospective pilot study. Ten years data of patients admitted to surgery ward with complaints of pain abdomen was reviewed. Patients with cholelithiasis were segregated as cases and patients with some other diagnosis were selected as controls. Patients with incidental diagnosis of cholelithiasis were excluded. Appropriate analytical tools were used to draw the results using SPSS
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