Prevalence and risk factors of gallstone disease in a high altitude Saudi population

Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 794-802

  Abu Eshy, S A ^a   Mahfouz, A A ^a   Badr, A ^b   El Gamal, M N ^c   AI Shehri, M Y ^a   Salati, M I ^b   Rabie, M E ^a  

^a KING KHALID UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b Abha Private Hospital   (Saudi Arabia)

^c ASEER CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ADULT; AGE; ALTITUDE ACCLIMATIZATION; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; COFFEE; COMMUNITY ASSESSMENT; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ECHOGRAPHY; EDUCATION; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; GALLSTONE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MUSCULOSKELETAL PAIN; OBESITY; ORAL CONTRACEPTION; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; SAUDI ARABIA; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING; STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SYMPTOM;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALTITUDE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; DYSPEPSIA; FEMALE; FLATULENCE; GALLSTONES; HUMANS; JAUNDICE, OBSTRUCTIVE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; SAUDI ARABIA; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 34848903218     PISSN: 10203397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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