About 20 million Americans harbor gallstones. Only 1 - 3% of the population, however, complains of symptoms during the course of a year, and less than half of these people will experience recurrent symptoms.
Women are much more likely than men to develop gallstones. They occur in nearly 25% of women in the US by age 60 and up to 50% by age 75. (Again, in most cases they are asymptomatic.) In general, women are probably at increased risk because estrogen stimulates...
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