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ArticleFrontiers in medicine2023

Higher levels of systemic immune-inflammatory index are associated with the prevalence of gallstones in people under 50 years of age in the United States: a cross-sectional analysis based on NHANES.

Chunli Meng, Kai Liu

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Article in Frontiers in medicine, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers.

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Chunli MengCenter of Infectious Diseases, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China.
Kai LiuCenter of Infectious Diseases, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China.

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Introduction: Inflammation plays a significant role in gallstones formation. The prognosis of various illnesses was initially predicted using the systemic immune-inflammatory index (SII). We performed an updated analysis on the impact of SII and gallstones. Methods: To investigate the connection between the SII and gallstones occurrence in a sample of individuals from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) database from 2017 to 2020, we employed logistic regression analysis, subgroup analysis, and smoothing curve fitting. Results: In our study, an aggregate of 4,950 individuals over the age of 20 were enrolled, and 429 of them claimed to have gallstones. A fully adjusted model showed that the third and fourth quartiles of SII was parallel associated with gallstones in adults (OR = 2.43, 95% CI = 1.39-4.26; OR = 2.97, 95% CI = 1.72-5.16) under 50 years. Subgroup analysis and smoothed curve fitting provided evidence in favor of this finding. Conclusion: According to our research, gallstones are more likely to occur in US adults younger than 50 years.

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cross-sectional studygallstoneslymphocyteneutrophilSIIsystemic immune-inflammatory index

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