Prevalence and Determinant Factors of Chronic Calculous Cholecystitis among Senile Population Arar, KSA

The Egyptian Journal of Hospital Medicine

Maha Mukhlef R Alanazi, Abdalla Mohamed Bakr Ali, Waad Salamah Alaleimi, Asem Matrouk Z Alrowaili, Sultan Majed M Alshammari, Saud Rteamy R Alanazi, Abrar Asaad M Alanazi, Waad Alazri S Alanazi, Jawaher Naif M Althayidi, Alaa Ali S Alanazi, Zain Amer L Alruwily, Dnya Saleh Affat Alanaziy, Zaid Qati F Alshammari, Mashail Rasheed M Alshammari, Fatimah Awadh A Alrasheedi

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Abstract

Background: chronic calculous cholecystitis is an inflammatory disease which affects the gallbladder wall and causes motoric-tonic dysfunctions of the biliary system accompanied by gallstones in the lumen of the gallbladder and biliary pain.Among aging study groups, the prevalence of gallstone disease is likely to increase.Aim of the Work: to determine the prevalence and determinant factors of chr...

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Keywords

Medicine

Chronic cholecystitis

Cholecystitis

Population

Internal medicine

Gastroenterology

Environmental health

Gallbladder

Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)

Good health and well-being

2018

Article

Open Access

Institution

Faculty of Medicine, Northern Border University, KSA,

Faculty of Medicine, Sohag University, Egypt

Publisher

Egypts Presidential Specialized Council for Education and Scientific Research

2-Y Citation Average

0.233

DOI

https://doi.org/10.21608/ejhm.2018.11351

Language

en

Country

Saudi Arabia,

Egypt