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Gallstone disease in a rural Bangladeshi community.

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2002

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Swapan Chandra Dhar, Shakeel Ahmed Ansari, Madhusudan Saha, Mukhtar Ahmad, Muhammad Tahar Bin Rahman, Mustafa Hasan, Abbas Khan
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Abstract

Approximately 5% of the Bangladeshi rural community evaluated have GSD. Higher age, female gender, presence of obesity and higher socio-economic class were associated with higher prevalence of GSD.