Prevalence of gallstone disease in Mexico. A necropsy study.
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.
Méndez-Sánchez
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Clínica de Hígado, Instituto Nacional de la Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, México.
Jessurun
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Ponciano-Rodríguez
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Alonso-de-Ruiz
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Uribe
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Hernández-Avila
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D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D001344:Autopsy / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D016009:Chi-Square Distribution; D002769:Cholelithiasis / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008800:Mexico / Q000453:epidemiology; D008875:Middle Aged; D011203:Poverty / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D015995:Prevalence; D012737:Sex Factors