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Diverticulitis Familiality: A Statewide Case-Control Study.
Journal of the American College of Surgeons - 1 Nov 2023
Cohan Jessica N, Horns Joshua J, Ramsay Joemy M, Huang Lyen C, Allen-Brady Kristina
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BACKGROUND: The etiology of diverticulitis is multifactorial and poorly understood. We estimated the familiality of diverticulitis using the Utah Population Database, a statewide database linking medical records with genealogy data. STUDY DESIGN: We identified patients with diverticulitis diagnosed between 1998 and 2018 and age- and sex-matched controls in the Utah Population Database. Risk of diverticulitis in...
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