ASSOCIATION OF BMI WITH THE FREQUENCY OF CHOLELITHASIS : A CROSS SECTIONAL STUDY

Objectives: To find the correlation between Body mass index and age of patients with cholelithasis. Methodology: It is a cross sectional study conducted from 01-01-2024 to 30-12-2024 at the sector of general Surgery Bashir Hospital, Sialkot. All individuals that were diagnosed with cholelithasis and have undergone holecystectomy were included in the study and individuals with prior abdominal surgeries were not included in the study.The patients were interviewed regarding their age , gender, body mass in kilograms and vertical height in meters and the body mass index was calculated as mass in kilogram divided by the Square of height in meters. Inference: The study involved 504 individuals according to the criterias mention before with an average BMI of 27.16±4.47 and out of the 504 individuals 370 were women and the remaining 134 were men with a ratio of 4:1 . The average age of patients was found to be 44.2±15.1 Conclusion: An increased occurrence of cholelithasis is seen in females with advancing age.