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SUBMITTER: Jaruvongvanich V
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5551275 | biostudies-other | 2017 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Jaruvongvanich Veeravich V Sanguankeo Anawin A Upala Sikarin S
Hawai'i journal of medicine & public health : a journal of Asia Pacific Medicine & Public Health 20170801 8
There have been conflicting reports on the association of alcohol use and diverticular disease. We aimed to determine the odds of developing diverticular disease and diverticular bleeding in patients who consumed alcohol on a regular basis compared with those who did not. MEDLINE and PUBMED were searched up until February 2017 on observational trials, which investigated the effect of alcohol use on two outcomes of diverticular disease: diverticulosis and diverticular bleeding. Quantitative estim ...[more]