The association between hypertension and the risk of gallstone disease: a cross-sectional study.
Yalan ZhangLi SunXin WangZongtao ChenPublished in: BMC gastroenterology (2022)
The gallstone disease was prevalent and hypertension is significantly associated with the gallstone disease risk with a significant dose-response association. This study showed that the association between hypertension and cholecystectomy was not statistically significant, maybe hypertension correlated with gallstones but not with symptomatic gallstone disease which would require cholecystectomy.