Prevalence of gallstone disease in Mexico. A necropsy study. Academic Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • The prevalence of gallstone disease in Mexico was investigated by studying a sample of 21,446 necropsies performed at the Department of Pathology of the General Hospital of Mexico City during a 35-year period (1953-1988). For each decade, 1000 necropsy cases were randomly selected. The crude prevalence of gallstone disease was 14.3%, 8.5% for males and 20.4% for females. The age groups ranged from 20 to more than 80 years old; the age-standardized prevalence for males was 5.6% and for females 16.2%. These rates are intermediate between those found in Chile and some African countries, comparable to some European studies, and less than those found in Mexican-Americans. No significant trend in the prevalence of gallstone disease was found when the different decades were compared.

publication date

  • April 1, 1993

Research

keywords

  • Cholelithiasis

Identity

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 0027538486

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1007/BF01316800

PubMed ID

  • 8462367

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 38

issue

  • 4