WEIGHT, DIET, AND THE RISK OF SYMPTOMATIC GALLSTONES IN MIDDLE-AGED WOMEN
WEIGHT, DIET, AND THE RISK OF SYMPTOMATIC GALLSTONES IN MIDDLE-AGED WOMEN
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DOI:
10.1056/nejm198908313210902
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发表时间:
1989-08-31
影响因子:
158.5
通讯作者:
WILLETT, WC
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MACLURE, KM;HAYES, KC;WILLETT, WC
To assess the risk factors for symptomatic gallstones, 88,837 women in the Nurses'' Health Study cohort (age range, 34 to 59 years) were followed for four years after completing a detailed questionnaire about food and alcohol intake in 1980. A total of 433 cholecystectomies and 179 cases of newly symptomatic, unremoved gallstones, diagnosed by ultrasonographic examination or x-ray films, were reported during the four-year follow-up. The age-adjusted relative risk for very obese women, who had a Quetelet index of relative weight (weight in kilograms divided by the square of the height in meters) of more than 32 kg per square meter, was 6.0 (95 percent confidence interval, 4.0 to 9.0), as compared with women whose relative weight was less than 20 kg per square meter. For slightly overweight women (relative weight, 24 to 24.9 kg per square meter), the relative risk was 1.7 (95 percent confidence interval, 1.1 to 2.7). Overall, we observed a roughly linear relation between relative weight and the risk of gallstones. Among the 59,306 women whose relative weight was less than 25 kg per square meter, a high energy intake (>8200 J per day), as compared with a low energy intake (< 4730 J per day), was associated with an increased incidence of symptomatic gallstones (relative risk, 2.1; 95 percent confidence interval, 1.4 to 3.3), and an alcohol intake of a least 5 per day was associated with a decreased incidence as compared with abstention (relative risk, 0.6; 95 percent confidence interval, 0.4 to 0.8). Parity did not appear to be an important risk factor after an adjustment was made for relative weight. These data support a strong association between obesity and symptomatic gallstones and suggest that even moderate overweight may increase the risk.