Author(s)

Sarah Virgínia Dantas Guimarães^1*, Heldernilson Lopes Eugênio Gomes¹, Claudio Galindo de Oliveira¹, Marcus Fabiano Santana Rocha Chiacchio¹, Fabricio Miranda Souza¹, Daniel Souza Oliveira¹, Renata Lima de Cerqueira¹, Jurandir José Cerqueira Dantas Junior¹, Denise Rosso Tenório Wanderley Rocha¹, Alberto Krayyem Arbex^2,3

¹Postgraduate Study Programme in Endocrinology, IPEMED Medical School (IPEMED), Bahia, Brazil.
²Division of Endocrinology, IPEMED Medical School, Salvador-Bahia, Brazil.
³Visiting Scientist of the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, USA.

Cholelithiasis is a common disease in the general population. One of its risk factors is the type 2 diabetes mellitus, related to metabolic abnormalities associated to overweight, obesity, insulin resistance, hypertriglyceridemia and dietary habits. The main risk factors to cholelithiasis are genetic 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.

Diabetes Mellitus, Obesity, Prevalence and Cholelithiasis

Guimarães, S. , Gomes, H. , de Oliveira, C. , Chiacchio, M. , Souza, F. , Oliveira, D. , de Cerqueira, R. , Junior, J. , Rocha, D. and Arbex, A. (2016) Prevalence of Cholelithiasis in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes and Obesity in a Basic Family Health Centre in Irecê, Northeastern Brazil. Open Journal of Endocrine and Metabolic Diseases, 6, 38-42. doi: 10.4236/ojemd.2016.61006.