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SUBMITTER: Kim SY
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7253851 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kim So Young SY Lim Hyoseob H Park Bumjung B Lim Hyun H Kim Miyoung M Kong Il Gyu IG Choi Hyo Geun HG
Medicine 20200501 20
To evaluate the association between appendectomy and the occurrence of gallstones using a national sample cohort from Korea.The Korean National Health Insurance Service-National Sample Cohort was collected from 2002 to 2013. We extracted data for patients who had undergone appendectomy (n = 14,955) and a 1:4 matched control group (n = 59,820) and then analyzed the occurrence of gallstones. The patients were matched according to age, sex, income, region of residence, hypertension, diabetes mellit ...[more]