作者: Andrew K. Diehl , Wayne H. Schwesinger , Donald R. Holleman , James B. Chapman , William E. Kurtin
DOI: 10.1007/BF02090375
关键词: Genetic admixture 、 Gerontology 、 Mexican americans 、 Demography 、 Non-Hispanic whites 、 Transplant surgery 、 Gallstones 、 Medicine 、 Gastroenterology 、 Physiology
摘要: Mexican Americans have an elevated risk of gallstones. Their increased rates may be due to genetic admixture with Native Americans, who extremely high prevalences cholelithiasis. are believed almost exclusively cholesterol stones, whereas only 73% non-Hispanics reported such stones. Hence we hypothesized that would a higher proportion stones than non-Hispanic whites. We interviewed 398 and 93 whites undergoing cholecystectomy analyzed the composition their were younger (P<0.05). However, age-sex standardized was 89.7% in 87.2% conclude gallstones similar composition. The stone prevalence factors predispose both pigment