Comparative prevalence of gallstone disease at 100-year interval in a large Romanian town, a necropsy study
- 31 March 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Digestive Diseases and Sciences
- Vol. 32 (4), 354-357
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf01296287
Abstract
The prevalence of gallstone disease in a large Romanian town was determined on 6275 necropsies performed during a 10-year period (1973–1982). The “crude” prevalence of gallstone disease in women was 17.1% and in men, 6.9%. Age-standardized prevalence was 8.4% in women and 5.0% in men. This rate is lower than the prevalence of gallstones in northern or central European countries, but it is higher than that established in some southern countries of Europe. A comparison of the “crude” prevalence of gallstone disease was compared with that calculated for a similar 10-year period 100 years ago (1873–1882), on 1538 necropsies performed in the same town. Prevalence of gallstones rose significantly in a century (from a mean of 1.2% to 11.3%;P<0.001), a finding consistent with the concept that gallstone disease is a “disease of civilization”.This publication has 22 references indexed in Scilit:
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