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This document discusses risk factors for cholesterol gallstones. It finds that the prevalence increases with age, approaching 50% in women by age 70. Women are twice as likely as men to develop gallstones at all ages, due to effects of female sex hormones. Other risk factors include pregnancy, rapid weight loss from gastric bypass surgery or dieting, total parenteral nutrition, certain drugs like ceftriaxone and octreotide, obesity, and systemic diseases associated with insulin resistance. A Western diet hi

Author

Octyana Santosa

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