Gallstone disease more prevalent in North India Dr (Maj Gen) Atul K Sharma, AVSM, MS, DNB Sr. Consultant G I, Laparoscopic & Bariatric Surgery Chairman Institute of Gastrointestinal Sciences Alchemist Hospitals, Panchkula, atul.sharma@alchemisthospitals.com; 9779289117 Gallstone disease (cholelithiasis) has increasingly become a major cause of abdominal pain and discomfort in the developing world. Its occurrence has been found to be high (7.4%) in the adult population in the cities of Chandigarh and New Delhi in North India, which is interestingly seven times more frequent than in south India.
Female vs Males At one time considered to be a disease commonly afflicting the fat, fertile, flatulent, female of around forty years, it now also more often seen in the postpartum primipara, who was a pre-pregnancy contraceptive pill user. Meaning thereby, that there is a definite shift in the…
