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Gallstone disease and related risk factors in a large cohort of diabetic patients.
Digestive and liver disease : official journal of the Italian Society of Gastroenterology and the Italian Association for the Study of the Liver - 1 Feb 2004
Pagliarulo M, Fornari F, Fraquelli M, Zoli M, Giangregorio F, Grigolon A, Peracchi M, Conte D
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BACKGROUND AND AIM: The aim of this study of a large cohort of consecutive patients with diabetes mellitus was to investigate the still controversial questions concerning the prevalence and possible risk factors of gallstone disease in diabetics. PATIENTS AND METHODS: We enrolled 1337 consecutive patients (710 males aged 63 +/- 11 years and 627 females aged 65 +/- 11 years), of whom 1235 (92%) had type 2 and 102...
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