S Erlinger - European journal of gastroenterology & hepatology, 2000 - journals.lww.com 1348 European Journal of Gastroenterology & Hepatology 2000, Vol 1 2 No 12 :
Regional distribution of fat may be of importance. For example, high central or
truncal adiposity, relative to limb or lower extremity adiposity, is ... Cited by 61 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 4 versions
CW Ko, SP Lee - Gastrointestinal endoscopy, 2002 - Elsevier Gallstones are extremely common in Western societies. Approximately 15% of
Americans have gallstones, and approximately 650,000 to 700,000
cholecystectomies are performed every year. 1 . More than 98% of all ... Cited by 50 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 3 versions
- ►ptolemy.ca [PDF] EA Shaffer - Best Practice & Research Clinical Gastroenterology, 2006 - Elsevier Gallstone disease is common: >700,000 cholecystectomies and costs of $6.5
billion annually in the US The burden of disease is epidemic in American Indians
(60–70%); a corresponding decrease occurs in Hispanics of mixed Indian ... Cited by 51 - Related articles - All 15 versions
EA Shaffer - Current gastroenterology reports, 2005 - Springer Introduction Gallstones are extremely common in developed countries. Most (more
than 85%) are composed predominantly of cholesterol. In the United States,
cholecystitis ranked only 19 out of 20 among 20 leading gastrointestinal ... Cited by 45 - Related articles - All 3 versions
- ►physiology.org S VanPatten, N Ranginani, S Shefer, LB … - American Journal of Physiology- Gastrointestinal and …, 2001 - Am Physiological Soc Human obesity is associated with elevated plasma leptin levels. Obesity is also
an important risk factor for cholesterol gallstones, which form as a result of
cholesterol hypersecretion into bile. Because leptin levels are correlated ... Cited by 41 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 5 versions
J Stevens, KP Truesdale, JE McClain, J Cai - International Journal of Obesity, 2005 - nature.com There is currently no consensus on the definition of weight maintenance in
adults. Issues to consider in setting a standard definition include expert
opinion, precedents set in previous studies, public health and clinical ... Cited by 33 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 4 versions
- ►bmj.com MC Bateson - British Medical Journal, 2000 - pmj.bmj.com BACKGROUND It has been suggested that gallstone disease is now commoner, and
that this might explain an increase in cholecystectomy rates, though conclusive
evidence has been lacking. METHODS All the non-forensic necropsy results ... Cited by 29 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 6 versions
- ►bmj.com M Acalovschi - Postgraduate medical journal, 2001 - pubmedcentral.nih.gov Epidemiology The data usually employed in assessing gall- stone prevalence were
derived until recently from selected series of patients (necropsies, surgery,
etc), which may not represent the gen- eral population. SuYce to say that ... Cited by 26 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 9 versions
N Sato, K Miyasaka, S Suzuki, S Kanai, M … - Digestive diseases and sciences, 2003 - Springer The etiology of gallstones is multifactorial, with interactions between genes
and the environment. We generated cholecystokinin (CCK) -A receptor
(R)-deficient (−/−) mice and found that CCK did not produce gallbladder ... Cited by 21 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 4 versions
CF BElloWS, DH BErGEr, RA Crass - Am Fam Physician, 2005 - med.upenn.edu Many patients with gallstones can be managed expectantly. Generally, only
persons with symp- toms related to the presence of gallstones (eg, steady,
nonparoxysmal pain lasting four to six hours located in the upper ahdomen) ... Cited by 19 - Related articles - View as HTML - All 8 versions
