Abstract
Background: There is a never-ending stream of publications in the literature stating that obesity may be a risk factor for gallstones, associating gallstones to rising body mass index and obesity. The primary gastrointestinal disease associated with increased body mass and obesity was caused by changes in the liver and gall bladder.
Objectives: The current work's objective is to find the prevalence of gallstones in patients with obesity in this agricultural area, which is at the beginning of development and industrialization.
Methods: A prospective case series study was undertaken over a seven-year period, from May 1, 2012, to April 30, 2019, comparing a matched group (n=1310) of patients with average weight to 1219 of the 1564 obese patients who visited Hatwan Private Hospital in Sulaimani Governorate, Kurdistan Region, Iraq.
Results: Gallstones were discovered in 140 obese patients or 11.48 percent of the total. The majority of gallstones (n=87, 07.14%) were symptomatic, while fifty-three (4.43%) people had gallstones unintentionally when their abdomens were imaged.
Conclusion: The findings indicated that, compared to patients of average weight, patients with obesity had a lower prevalence of gallstones, whereas patients with obesity had a higher prevalence of symptomatic gallstones.
Additionally demonstrated that patients with obesity had lower serum levels of calcium and vitamin D compared to patients with average weight.
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