Clinical Trial: The Risk Factors of Symptomatic Gallbladder Stone: Age-Sex Matched Case-control Study Performed in Single Institute

Study Status: Completed
Recruit Status: Completed
Study Type: Observational

Official Title: The Risk Factors of Symptomatic Gallbladder Stone: Age-Sex Matched Case-control Study Performed in Single Institute

Brief Summary: The main purpose of this study is to investigate the region-specific cause of gallbladder stone incidence in Jeju Self-Governing Province, Korea.

Detailed Summary: Investigators performed the epidemiologic study to uncover the reason of relatively higher incidence of Gallbladder cancer in small isolated island, Jeju island, one of small province among 11 self governing area in South Korea. Tow studies, including descriptive epidemiology and analytic epidemiology using case-control study, some risk factors were obtained regarding Gallbladder cancer development in this area. Old age, female, and gallstone were potential risk factors and alcohol consumption was preventive factors. So authors decided to evaluate the relationship between alcohol and gallbladder stone in order to how much portion of causal relationship they have with gallbladder cancer. So this study was designed to investigate the relationship between gallbladder stone and alcohol consumption then performed clinical based case-control study with age-sex matching to each subjects.
Sponsor: Cheju Halla General Hospital

Current Primary Outcome: Alcohol consumption [ Time Frame: Through study completion, an average of 1 year ]

Standard Dose Drink per week was used to compare the amount of alcohol consumption of each subjects


Original Primary Outcome: Same as current

Current Secondary Outcome: Obesity [ Time Frame: Through study completion, an average of 1 year ]

Obesity was defined as cases were scored more than 25 kg/square meter of Body Mass Index


Original Secondary Outcome: Same as current

Information By: Cheju Halla General Hospital

Dates:
Date Received: June 15, 2016
Date Started: January 2009
Date Completion:
Last Updated: June 17, 2016
Last Verified: June 2016