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• TITLE: Prevalence of Cholelithiasis in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes and Obesity in a Basic Family Health Centre in Irecê, Northeastern Brazil

  AUTHORS: Sarah Virgínia Dantas Guimarães, Heldernilson Lopes Eugênio Gomes, Claudio Galindo de Oliveira, Marcus Fabiano Santana Rocha Chiacchio, Fabricio Miranda Souza, Daniel Souza Oliveira, Renata Lima de Cerqueira, Jurandir José Cerqueira Dantas Junior, Denise Rosso Tenório Wanderley Rocha, Alberto Krayyem Arbex

  KEYWORDS: Diabetes Mellitus, Obesity, Prevalence and Cholelithiasis

  JOURNAL NAME: Open Journal of Endocrine and Metabolic Diseases, Vol.6 No.1, January 19, 2016

  ABSTRACT: Cholelithiasis is a common disease in the general population. One of its risk factors is the type 2diabetes mellitus, related to metabolic abnormalities associated to overweight, obesity, insulin resistance, hypertriglyceridemia and dietary habits.The main risk factors to cholelithiasis aregenetic susceptibility, ileum resection, diabetes mellitus, obesity, hemolytic anemia, age,estrogens and cirrhosis. This study aims to make a correlation between diabetes mellitus and obesity versus prevalence of cholelithiasis in these patients.