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This document outlines several risk factors for gallstone formation including advancing age, being female, use of oral contraceptive pills, obesity, metabolic syndromes, and hyperlipidemia. It then provides a pathophysiological diagram showing how hypomotility of the gallbladder, accelerated cholesterol crystal nucleation, and hypersecretion of mucus in the gallbladder can lead to cholesterol stone formation due to supersaturation of bile with cholesterol. The stones may then cause pain, nausea, vomiting or
- Author
- Michael Sedano
- Language
- EN