A study of dietary habits and demographic study of patients of gallstone disease

Gallstones are the most common biliary pathology. In Asian population, cholelithiasis ranges from approximately 3 to 15% 1. Women are three times more likely to develop gallstones than men. The study was performed on a group of 115 patients who were admitted in Department of General Surgery for Cholecystectomy (Laproscopic) during period of 1 year 20 days. The average age of the patients was 42.45 (±14.05) years. 52.2% of patients were from age group 30-50 years of which most were females (30-40 yr: 78.8%) (41-50 yr: 77.8%). 20% of total patients were of age group 51-60 yrs, 17.4% were less than 30 yrs and 10.4% of patients were more than 60 year old. 89.9% of total patients were females while only 19.1% were males. Mustard oil was used by most (75.7%) of the patients of which 82.8% were females and 17.2% males whereas refined oil as a cooking medium was used by 24.3% of patients of which 75% were females and 25% were males. Most of the patients were non-vegetarian (60.9%) of which 85.7% were females and 14.3% were males whereas 39.1% of the patients were vegetarian of whom 26.7% were males and 73.3% females.