@article{45d3facdb19e4299a947efa7688e804c,
title = "Gallstone disease in diabetics: Analysis using multiple-cause mortality tables",
abstract = "We have used multiple-cause mortality tables for England and Wales to examine the clinically suspected relationship of gallstone disease to diabetes. Several epidemiologic studies have found diabetics to have a high prevalence of cholelithiasis, while others have shown no increase. Our results do not suggest that diabetics are at increased risk of death from gallstone related diseases.",
author = "Diehl, {Andrew K.} and Jonathan Elford",
note = "Funding Information: To test this hypothesis, we reviewed multiple-cause mortality tables for diabetes in England and Wales for 1975 and 1976. These tables, preparcd by the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys, identify all death certificates on which diabetes is mentioned, and break them down by broad age groups, sex and underlying cause of death. The number of certificates which both mentioned diabetes and assigned gallbladder dimase or cancer as the underlying caum ofdeath during these years was thus obtained. We then estimated the age-standardized expected number of such death certificates, assuming that there is no relationship between the mention of diabetes and gallbladder disease or cancer. (Certificates on which diabetes was the underlying cause of death were excluded from the analysis,) We calculated a form Dr Diehl is a Scholar in epidemiology of the Milbank Memorial Fund, and is on leave from the Deparlment of Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas, U.S.A. Mr Elford is supported by a grant from the British Diabetic Association. Copyright: Copyright 2014 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.",
year = "1981",
month = sep,
doi = "10.1016/S0033-3506(81)80016-9",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "95",
pages = "261--263",
journal = "Public Health",
issn = "0033-3506",
publisher = "Elsevier",
number = "5",
}